Lots of truth here..........I am pushing on 70 years old very hard, I still consider myself to be in fairly good shape for an "old fart," but too old to engauge in fistacuffs. Tho that has not always been the case, at some point I found it takes too long to heal after an injury, and the hurt sometimes lingers after the healing process is complete. A while back I had a young man jump me while attempting to break up a fight. he turned on me and said, "I'm gonna kick somebody's butt, and it might as well be yours." He took a swing at me, I stepped back and he hit me on the right arm, he took another swing and hit me on the left side of my face and neck, he then fell back against a pickup and didn't move.....there was a little .40 stuck up his nose, his lip was bleeding, and all the fight was gone. In the process of sticking the gun up his nose I broke one of his front teeth off at the gum line. He call the police, when they arrived they were about to take me to jail until one of the cops seen the big bruise on my neck and face, and determined that I was only defending myself. He went to jail.
What this amounted to was an attitude adjustment for a smart mouth punk that thinks he can throw his weight around at will. Today he will tell you, "Don't mess with that old man, he might shoot you!"