to pick a fight

Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 621: Picking a Fight.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 621. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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Today’s episode is a story about a man who goes to a bar, and there is another man at the bar who wants to fight him. Sounds exciting! Let’s get started.

I was sitting at my local bar waiting for my friends to arrive to watch the game. Two guys sitting a few seats away kept giving me strange looks, and one of them said, “What are you looking at?” I looked around to make sure that he was speaking to me, and before I could respond he said, “You want a piece of me? You and what army? Let’s take it outside.”

By this time, I realized that this guy was trying to pick a fight with me