Don’t give in to brutish nature in Five Points

If you’re over 21, chances are you’ve visited the Five Points area on a weekend night. This past Saturday night was especially a busy one, as hoards of students dressed in their costumes invaded the bars from Pour House to Red Hots.
Maybe it was the fact that many of the bar hoppers were already feeling the effects of their pre-downtown treats, or the game that should be forgotten as soon as possible, or maybe even a combination, but there’s something about Five Points that turns relatively sensible people into argumentative, instigating, bravado-filled, egotistical hot heads.
It doesn’t matter if the place is crawling with cops, 350-pound bouncers, and enough witnesses to land you a few hundred hours of community service, the combination of alcohol, jealousy, and misunderstanding leads many to engage in unwise decisions.
For girls, there is typically the pulling of the air or assertion that the other is sexually promiscuous.
For guys, the latter doesn’t typically deter the opposing bar guest, so they resort to homosexual accusations, pushing, name-calling, and ultimately if the conditions are right, a brief 20-second brawl with a barrage of missed punches and maybe a knocking over a few $1 PBRs before being escorted out by the security and possibly turned into the legal authorities.
Why, you may be wondering, are otherwise rational people so prone to submit to these primal urges? While the main underlying reason is the type of beverage they’ve been consuming prior to their arrival, there are still those that can manage to keep cool given the same impairment. What drives some guys and girls to turn into Neanderthals?
Whatever it is, it does not impress your girlfriend or buddies, and it is not going to solve your dilemma with the chick hitting on your dude. Do what is the rule of thumb in almost every other potentially angering situation — be cool. This is not hard to do.
I’m not talking about running away, but you can avoid being arrested and embarrassed by acting mature, even if you’re not. There is no positive outcome to giving into your rage, so you might as well be an adult about it and continue your night with nothing more than a story about the jerk that cut you off at the urinal.
 

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