Classic Parent Lines
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i suppose the big classic lines from my childhood tho, were when my brother and i would get uppidy with him or my mom..
he'd just calmly look at us, and quietly say, 'appolgise to your mom right now, or you and i, little man..will go down the hallway right now, and 'do a little dance'....i think the do a little dance thing was some kind of code word for 'getting the tar beat out of me'...
suffice to say, he was a quiet man, that never ever raised his voice...
so hearing words like that come from him, and knowing he could back it up...well....
i never had to go down the hall and find out what the 'dance' was all about...
i'd appologize pretty fucking fast...his standard line about things like if he ever caught us doing drugs..or if we ever got a girl pregnant when we were teenagers was 'see that big tree in the backyard..i'll hang you off it'...
i suppose stuff like this sounds nuts, but it did make an impression...
quiet guy, my old man...very funny, very gentle....but there was never any doubt groing up that his word was fucking law in the house...
some folks yell, some folks beat the snot out of their kids..
my dad just had to say a few quiet words