story -- now you have a nut
whose family is gone.
He went to the car, changed his
outfit...
>> Correct.
>> Judge Judy: ...to come back
into the restaurant, you think,
to look for you.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Right?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: And now you're
both standing at the door, and
you say he's in your face, but
his back is to the door.
Right?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: And he was moving
closer to you, because you say
he was in your face...
>> Correct.
>> Judge Judy: ...and you say to
him -- so now you see this nut
is sort of confronting you,
Mr. Xue, and you say, "Get away
from me," you know, "you're in
my face, you're in my space."
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: So Mr. Pogue has
to turn around.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: So now he's
facing the door, and he goes out
the door.
>> Correct.
>> Judge Judy: An intelligent
young man would say, "You know
what?
I'm gonna stay in here for a
minute and let him leave."
That's what an intelligent young
man would do.
Let's say -- 'cause I have
now -- I haven't started with
him yet.
I have somebody who's
aggressive, who clearly came
back looking for trouble.
It appears that I have averted
trouble, because he's leaving.
I don't think I'm gonna go right
back to join my family.
The table wasn't ready.
They weren't giving it to
somebody else.
>> Right.
>> Judge Judy: So what did you
go outside for?
>> I didn't think that there
would be further --
>> Judge Judy: You didn't think.
>> No.
>> Judge Judy: You weren't
thinking all morning.
You weren't thinking.
You weren't thinking when you
scooted in when he was holding
the door.
You weren't thinking when this
nutjob, who went to his car,
changed his clothes, came back,
looking for a fight, you said,
"You want to fight me?"
And he said, "Nah, I'm leaving."
And he turns around and he
leaves, and you follow him right
outside.
>> Well, Your Honor, the entire
confrontation happened so
quickly, I didn't have time to
think.
>> Judge Judy: [ Laughs ]
Okay.
And he punched you?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: In the face?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: And this case
dragged on in the criminal court
for two years.
And were there ever any charges
filed?
>> Yes.
Two misdemeanor charges were
filed, but they were dismissed
due to lack of evidence.
>> Judge Judy: They were
dismissed.
Okay, and that's why you're here
now, two years later, because
you want some financial
compensation for being hit.
>> Yes, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: Mr. Pogue, you
want to tell me your version of
the events?
>> Absolutely, I do, Your Honor.
The initial contact --
>> Judge Judy: The initial
contact we understand.
You're holding the door for your
wife.
Mr. I Can't Wait to go to the
Bathroom scoots in.
>> Right, he walks through my
wife.
He actually physically walks
through her.
>> Judge Judy: Well, he didn't
walk through her.
>> He did.
>> Judge Judy: He can't walk
through your wife.
She's not an invisible person.
He can't walk through your wife.
But he walked around her.
>> In her space.
He actually --
>> Judge Judy: I got it.
I got exactly what he did.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy: I got it.
You speak stupid.
It usually requires nothing more
than a look.
When somebody does that to me,
if I'm holding the door for one
of my grandchildren, and some
idiot scoots in and doesn't let
that child go, I look at him
like this.
"Idiot."
>> Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
Well, I said it in terms of,
"You're rude."
>> Judge Judy: That was actually
nicer than I would've done.
>> He was aggressive.
He got in my face close enough
to spit in my face and tell me
that I'm rude, okay?
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
"No," what he said, "No, you're
rude."
>> Exactly.
>> Judge Judy: I got exactly --
I got exactly what happened.
>> With the spit --
>> Judge Judy: I got exactly
what happened.
>> Okay, so, I get my family to
the car.
I put on a jacket, and I walk
back in the restaurant.
>> Judge Judy: Ah!
There we go, Mr. Pogue.
Now, that's your problem.
>> That is a problem.
Only to confront him about --
not physically -- to tell him,
to reiterate with him that he
was rude for what he did.
>> Judge Judy: Mr. Pogue,
unnecessary.
You agree?
>> I agree.
>> Judge Judy: And let me tell
you who else told you it was
unnecessary.
She did, 'cause you go to to the
car, you put her in the car with
your two children.
Did you tell him, "Forget it,
let it go"?
>> Of --
>> Judge Judy: No, no, no.
That's what I'm asking you.
That's either a yes or a no.
Did you tell him "Forget it, let
it go"?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Stand up for one
minute.
I'm not trying to put you in
difficult circumstances.
Were you annoyed that he left
you and the boys in the car
while he went back to confront
this guy?
>> Well, you know, the problem
is that the car was right there,
like five -- I'm sorry -- like
five steps from the door.
So it was really fast.
He just went there, opened the
door for me again in the car,
and then he went back in.
>> Judge Judy: How could
somebody so polite -- I've been
married for 40 years -- I've
been opening car doors for
myself for 40 years.
You have somebody who holds the
door open for you, right?
>> He's a good husband.
>> Judge Judy: And opens the car
door for you.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: So, from where
you were sitting in the car, you
could see what was going on?
>> Well, you know --
>> Judge Judy: That's either a
yes or a no.
>> To tell you the truth, no.
>> Judge Judy: Good.
That's all.
I know.
I want you to lie to me.
Now you