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Relationships: How To Do It The Right Way - Monday - Period Three

Marshall had handwavily asked his students to show up at the Danger Shop today. It had been transformed into a boxing ring and Marshall was standing in the middle. He looked a little uncomfortable today as he stood up in front of the class. He had eaten way too much candy over the weekend. He was pretty sure he needed to go see a dentist or something.



“Eating six bags of Skittles in two hours is not something you want to do guys,” Marshall said. “I still think my tongue is still purple.”

“Anyways, today we’re going to be talking about fights. There is no such thing as a fight-less relationship. There’s a big fights, little fights, fights involving work, fights involving who left the peanut butter lid off the jar. There’s a lot of them. The important thing is to work through them with as little damage as possible.”

“Little fights are easy to brush off. Most likely they involve one person being right and one person being wrong, just like fights you have with friends. There’s a lot of glaring and one person calling the other a stupidface but overall it’s really no big deal. You just have to be careful with the personal insults because, unlike fights with your friends, the fate of your sex life for the next couple of days can depend on whether or not you tell your significant other that their red cowboy boots look stupid in the heat of the moment.”

Marshall paused for a moment, sort of weirded out that he used an argument he had with Ted as an example.

“Big fights are less hard to deal with. Usually both parties are wrong about something and neither want to admit that they are wrong. Feelings get hurt, egos get bruised and it can often make or break a relationship. Someone has to man up first and admit that they did something wrong but do not completely give in. Unless it’s the rare fight that is entirely somebody’s fault. Then you should just fess up to it and lose like you’ve got a pair. It’s best to think out your argument before you say something you really, really regret,” he said. “And if you do say something you regret, then you get to smooth things over during the whole make up process. Which we will cover next week.”

“Today we’re going to fight. And since I think most verbal fights are boring, with the exception of a good ‘yo momma’ brawl, you guys are going to box each other. There’s headgear, mouth guards and boxing gloves over there,” Marshall said pointing at the far wall. “Try not to knock each other’s teeth out.”

Re: Sign In

[identity profile] flashesforinfo.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Angela Montenegro

Re: Fight!

[identity profile] flashesforinfo.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Angela was definitely a lover not a fighter, and was looking a little perturbed by this particular assignment as she fiddled with the gear.

Re: Sign In

[identity profile] neurotic-witch.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Chris Halliwell

Re: Fight!

[identity profile] neurotic-witch.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Chris generally tried not to pair up with his girlfriend for class assignments, but this one was too good to pass up. He grinned in her direction as he got his protective gear on.

Re: The TA!

[identity profile] neurotic-witch.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Chris was around.
intraspective: (royally pissed)

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[personal profile] intraspective 2008-08-04 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Yamanaka Ino

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[identity profile] death-of-hope.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Anemone

Re: Fight!

[identity profile] death-of-hope.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Anemone grinned, and looked around for someone she could hit. She hadn't gotten to fight with anyone in ages!

Re: OOC

[identity profile] decoder-rings.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
ICON HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. OH JASON SEGEL.
thatsamilkshake: (irate)

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[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-08-04 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Francine Peters
thatsamilkshake: (awkward)

Re: Fight!

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-08-04 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
No, seriously, boxing? Francine looked around dubiously (and a little fearfully) as she tried -- and failed -- to put her gloves on properly.
thatsamilkshake: (blush)

Re: Talk To Marshall

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-08-04 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Francine came up after class, somewhat heartened by her experience with this in Mr. Durden's class. "Um, hi. So... I kind of missed last week's class due to being made of paper? But I didn't want you to think I just ditched it or something."
thatsamilkshake: (erf)

Re: Talk To Marshall

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-08-04 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Francine snorted. "Nice work if you can get it." The boyfriend part, and the boyfriend who went out with you for long enough to get to meet his parents part.
absolutesnark: (Angry)

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[personal profile] absolutesnark 2008-08-04 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Summer Roberts
absolutesnark: (Amused)

Re: Fight!

[personal profile] absolutesnark 2008-08-04 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Summer put on her protective gear and smirked at Chris. "Think you can take me, Halliwell?"

Re: Fight!

[identity profile] neurotic-witch.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh I know it, Roberts," Chris replied.
absolutesnark: (Grin)

Re: Fight!

[personal profile] absolutesnark 2008-08-04 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh huh," Summer replied, proceeding to hit him lightly with a gloved hand.

Re: Fight!

[identity profile] neurotic-witch.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Chris didn't dodge, letting her punch land on his shoulder. Truth was, she probably would win because he was too afraid of hurting her.

Not that that stopped him from aiming a punch at her stomach.
thatsamilkshake: (cross-eyed)

Re: Talk To Marshall

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-08-04 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Too bad that pause didn't come before the talking part. Francine stammered, "I, um, that's, uh. Reassuring?"
absolutesnark: (Devious)

Re: Fight!

[personal profile] absolutesnark 2008-08-04 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Or maybe she would win because she's a lot stronger than she looks. That did not prevent her from dodging the blow, however. "That all you got?" Summer smirked.
thatsamilkshake: (blush)

Re: Talk To Marshall

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-08-04 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Totally erased! Never heard it!" Burned into her brain FOREVER.

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[identity profile] wanna-be-lucas.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Lucas Scott

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[identity profile] ambassadorinara.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Inara Serra

Re: Listen To The Lecture

[identity profile] ambassadorinara.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Inara listened to the lecture, getting a bit distracted towards the end as she wondered what was involved in a 'yo momma' brawl.

Re: Fight!

[identity profile] ambassadorinara.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Inara hadn't even gotten that far. "He wants us to hit each other?"
thatsamilkshake: (erf)

Re: Fight!

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-08-05 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
"I know, right?" Francine blinked at the gloves. "Isn't that sort of number one on the list of things you're not supposed to do in relationships?"

Re: Fight!

[identity profile] ambassadorinara.livejournal.com 2008-08-05 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
"That's what I was always taught," she agreed with a nod. "No matter how much you may want to cause someone physical harm, that does nothing but get you into trouble with the authorities. Also, it indicates that you couldn't think or coax your way out of the disagreement."
thatsamilkshake: (interested)

Re: Fight!

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-08-05 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
That was a more pragmatic take on it than Francine had been thinking, but she couldn't argue with it. "Plus if you disagree with somebody that much, possibly a sign that you need to not be in that relationship."

Re: Fight!

[identity profile] ambassadorinara.livejournal.com 2008-08-05 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Inara grinned. "Sure, if you're going to be proactive about things..."
thatsamilkshake: (smiley)

Re: Fight!

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-08-05 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, yeah, that's me. Proactive girl." Except for where she wasn't entirely sure what it even meant, aside from that acne-treatment they were always selling on late-night tv.

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[identity profile] laidanegg.livejournal.com 2008-08-05 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Dick Grayson

Re: Fight!

[identity profile] laidanegg.livejournal.com 2008-08-05 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Dick put the gear on and tried to psyche himself down a bit. He had to be sloppy and not fight as well as he could. That would be weird.

Re: Fight!

[identity profile] ambassadorinara.livejournal.com 2008-08-05 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Do you think we really have to do this?" She asked, sliding the gloves on and hating every single thing about how they felt as she glanced over at Professor Eriksen.
thatsamilkshake: (thinky)

Re: Fight!

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-08-05 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
"We could always try for the 'Your momma' brawl?" Francine suggested.

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[identity profile] lil-yellow.livejournal.com 2008-08-05 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Bumblebee