I almost got into a fight this week...

It was Thursday night and I was hanging out at the Annoyance theater after my class - just minding my own business. Anyway I walk up to the one open spot on the bar to get myself a drink and to my right is the short, clearly very intoxicated guy counting out cash on to the bar. There's a stack of one & twenty dollar bills and after he gets them both into a pile he mutter something and slams his fist into the bar itself.
Now I can't help but look over at this - and of course as I am he catches my eye - and in true drunk ass hole fashion he immediately asks me what the fuck I'm looking at.
I tell him sorry, just heard a noise and start to turn back. All of a sudden he gets this really intense look in his face - very angry, nostrils flaring, balls up his fist and points at me with his other hand and asks me real slowly:

"Were you born and raised in Peoria, Il?"

... Admittedly this question takes me a back - as in my long history of encounters with drunk assholes never have I had one ask me such a specific question. I tell him nope, I'm from Kentucky originally (I have to tell him twice before he understands) and as soon as he hears it all the anger just leaves him. He pats me on the shoulder and tells me "Oh good, cause you resemble some asshole I know who's ass I've wanted to beat since fifth grade."

I think that's the last I'll see of my drunk diminutive friend as we go our seperate ways, now bar friends - me 90 degrees to my left facing the bar, him to the box office. Low and behold I hear a commotion behind me and I see this guy standing at the ticket window his bic lighter in hand keeping two of my friends at bay as if they were Frankenstein's Monster. They had apparently been too close to him in the line for tickets, and so according to them he had threated to set them ablaze if they didn't back off.

The guy ended up be escorted out by two cops and while he was being escorted by me he gave me this look that I could tell meant next time we met it wouldn't matter where I was from ... unless of course he was sober.