Part of the thing you're feeling, Rummy, is that l'spirit de l'escalier, or whatever it's called - retrospectively realising a better thing to have done/said than what actually occurred. As everyone said, you did the 'right thing' - but what's eating you is that tehy will be running around trololololing about the whole affair, and probably continue and do it again sometime.
Idealistically, you rise above it and sneer at their infantile activities. Whilst it'd be nice to cream their face upon the underside of your boot, it really solves nothing at all. The guy that walked past and said "walk away" ... he said that because he's probably been exactly where you were and knows exactly how it can play out. It's shitty because it clearly stuck with you through the night and tinged your evening with sour thoughts of punching people in the face/being van damme and destroying them and rescuing the girl/etc. Moments like that play with your macho, but there's no legitimate, real reason to let these occasions dye the truth of the matter; they were naive, ignorant twats who went out solely to cause offense and offer derision in return for some chumpish, neanderthal-like laughs that they themselves will (mostly) look back on and cringe.
They're in a group so they're not behaving how they truly would independantly.
Rising above it and not allowing it to impinge your routine is what a winner is all about. If you ever see them again, laugh in their face and move on.
If this has got you questioning the fight side of things - would you last? Would you hurt? Would you kill? - then get learning some kravmaga man :P Feel secure in your self-defense and you'll rise above the situation quicker, knowing you'll take out the nonsense-fuelled vestwearer in a pinch if he stretches it that far. For him to be all "MATE IF THE TEACHER WASN'T WATCHING I'D TOTALLY DECK YOU" is pathetic on his part.
Yeah. Real life trolls.
Been happy-slapped in leeds. Been threatened by a gang of people in Sheffield. Walking Away leads to what-if thoughts but truly is safest option and... yeah. I know what it's like man.jpg