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Originally Posted by The Fonz
Sort of OT, but related to CC's post about suffering the consequences.
Once when I was a kid, I told my dad to "shut the F up"...to this day I've never seen a man put a steel toe boot on that quick.
I'm sure you can guess where he put it...
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If I had done that, my old man would have kicked me through the roof and into orbit, one that I wouldn't have come down from yet.
I still remember when I was 15 I lost my temper and hit one of my older sisters just as my dad came around the corner. He looked at me and cleared his throat and signaled me to meet him in the back yard, and I knew that I had screwed up in a big huge way and I was going to pay.
Its not like the old man was some abusive cold ogre, he was a great dad in a lot of ways. He's still one of the smarter men that I know, he's worked hard to give me breaks and he taught me a lot. He instilled a good work ethic in me, and he wasn't a physically intimidating guy at 5'8.
However due to being raised in a crazed dysfunctional single mother home where it was acceptable to be kicked out at the age of 14 my old man had a certain sense of crisis prevention and you didn't want to let him go, because he firmly believed in the price.