Relevant to this, I was recently making out with a girl on a sofa in a nightclub. This huge bald polish guy comes up and grabs my head and rubs it. He calls me "Baldy" in a pseudo-affectionate manner (I'm bald/shave headed fyi). He was drunk AF.
I behaved pretty conciously to all this. Kept it friendly but didn't smile too much. Maintained eye contact. Then got rid of him by forcing him to fist bump. I just put out my fist until he reciprocated. This was deliberately intended as a way of saying 'bye!'. He staggered away.
Not sure what else I could have done short of growing an instant 50lbs or more of muscle to deter this behaviour in the first place. Or escalated to getting a potential kicking -- there's no way I would have taken the guy -- and being thrown out of the club.
I think I came out with a neutral balance of frame -- didn't lose, did gain either. Took the girl to my airBnb.
Don't know how I'd have handled it if the guy had been less drunk...
I behaved pretty conciously to all this. Kept it friendly but didn't smile too much. Maintained eye contact. Then got rid of him by forcing him to fist bump. I just put out my fist until he reciprocated. This was deliberately intended as a way of saying 'bye!'. He staggered away.
Not sure what else I could have done short of growing an instant 50lbs or more of muscle to deter this behaviour in the first place. Or escalated to getting a potential kicking -- there's no way I would have taken the guy -- and being thrown out of the club.
I think I came out with a neutral balance of frame -- didn't lose, did gain either. Took the girl to my airBnb.
Don't know how I'd have handled it if the guy had been less drunk...