>my roommate's single....is a guy really gonna turn down the
>ass because she has a relative who sells coke?

YES. when that man has kids and the relative is the type who gets fucked up and slices his 'acquaintance' w/a fucking bowie knife? hell yes...that guy turns down the ass if he has any sense. b/c he has too much to live for. b/c that piece of ass ain't worth the risk that he will suffer bodily harm, incarceration or death due to the relative's craziness.

That kinda
>criteria eliminates more than 50% of the women I know.

sounds like there's another 50% to be fucked with. and there's a big ol' world full of women who don't have that kind of baggage.

wtf.

>And that's just how the bars are around here.

then stay out of bars, recovering addict.

hello?

We don't have to become monks 'just in case' we get
>involved with something.

no but you don't have to court danger for bullshit reasons either.

>This is where we live.

then maybe it's time to move. i'd move.

I've been
>damn good getting through life without getting in trouble and
>avoiding obstacles like this. Sometimes you don't have a
>choice.

sounds like you have a choice. several.

>And I know if it happened to me....I would just keep my mouth
>shut, call it a loss and make sure noone I know tries to exact
>revenge so I could put it behind me. My roommate is different
>from me. And planning to beat someone up cause they tried to
>kill you with a knife isn't childish imo. Perfectly logical
>to me.

fix your logic then.

And them fighting makes sure that all the people on
>the periphery don't get involved.

LOL