The only bar fight i've ever been in wasn't even my fault and i don't remember it very well. I was out drinking heavily with my friends in Louisville hopping from pub to pub and was several Irish Carbombs into the wind. I'm a happy, sloshy, drunk that smiles and sits quietly...although i do stagger a bit, but i don't fall.
Anyway, so off I go to the bar to grab another beer. Walk, walk, stumble, sway, and bump into a liliputan patron with a chip on his shoulder. Now i'm not a big guy at 175lb and 5'10, but i was towering over this lil' fella by a good 4". Anyway, he spins around and sees me smiling (i'm always smiling), thinks i being wise and bumping into on purpose. I had no idea i had even touched him. The only feeling i had at that point was the liquid sloshing in my stomach and ever increasing pressure on my bladder. The lil fella just hauls off and col'cocks me in jaw...square. It knocks me back a little, I spin, and find myself sitting at an empty chair at someone else's table.
The bar goes silent and the wee white sugar ray is poised to come "get me". The waitress trying to break up the fight, nice girl named Wendy, comes over to talk to me. Before she can get a word out, i'm told I said something to effect of "Hey, Wendy, could you bring me another Guinness?...a cold one. I'm sure my jaw is going to be hurting tomorrow...and a shot of whiskey for my friend here (pointing to the dwarf that just assulted me). I'm sure his hand has to smart pretty bad after hitting a skull as hard as mine."
So I had my beer, and my attcker had his shot. We talked for a few mins and he was very sorry. Girl troubles. I believe his name was Gary or George or Jerry...somethin' who cares? His hand DID hurt, by the way.
No charges were pressed. No one was thrown out. A punch had been thrown and landed, and settled with a drunk slurring joke and a bought drink.
After my beer, I paid my tab, walked out, got sick in the side street, and felt like hell in the morning. No bruise on my cheek the next day, so he must have just tapped me enough to knock me backwards a bit.
He was lucky I was drunk. Had he hit me sober, I probably would have flattened the little bastard.
And that my friends, is how i was beaten up by a leprechaun in an Irish Pub.
Is the tale tall or not...I'll never tell
Jake