Finishing up at the gym this evening, something really interesting happened.

On my way out, I stop by the front desk to have a chat with one of my female friends who works there, and we get on the topic of commonalities between her exes. Somehow to topic of tall guys comes up, and I respond with "I've never met a girl who prefers short men".

At this point, a pair of short hispanic characters walk in and jokingly, I ask:

Me: You guys know any girls who prefer short guys Guy 1: Yeah Guy 2: I don't any girls who prefer you Me: Excuse me?

Girl makes eye contact with me.

Guy 2 walks up inches to my face, tries to intimidate me:

Guy2: I'll lay you down right here you blah blah blah Me: You're welcome to come outside.

At this point he walks away, still spitting fire (but it didn't seem like a back down type of walk).

Literally, 0 to 60. Dude engaged my fight or flight response, and now I'm debating approaching him and issuing a legit challenge. A friend of mine owns an MMA gym and I have about 6 months of Muay Thai under my belt.

It was super strange because I couldn't tell if he was joking.

Thoughts?

TLDR: Talking with desk girl, make joke, dude get super aggressive off the bat. Part of me says drop it, you have more important shit to do, other part wants to establish dominance.