I don’t know about you, but I normally don’t hear about too many fights occurring at Legacy High School.  I can’t recall ever hearing one, and I have surely never seen one.

However, today I almost saw a fight.   It happened as I was walking toward Newspaper class.  Two guys I have never seen before were pushing each other against the walls and spitting out some “fightin’ words,” and it was intense.  Me,  I’m a pretty peaceful guy.  I try to be non-confrontational, so I walked up between the two men, took one of their hands and shook, saying, “Hi, my name’s Chase.  How are you today?”

He cooled down a bit and offered a hello, and then I did the same thing for the other man.  He said he obviously wasn’t doing too well today, so I wished him a good weekend and walked away.  The other almost-fighter had already walked away.  So I’m not sure if I was the only thing involved with deterring the fight, but I sure helped! And I did it Thoreau/Ghandi style!  So I hope everyone knows that nonviolent methods really do work and there is always a better way to handle a situation.