FATHER - I GOT IT

I learned one day. I had never given him an opportunity to raise his gigantic hands at me but once.

Or in my case, catch me.

Flashback: Years later, my younger brother Number #9 and I were having a loud disagreement in

the kitchen over pancakes one early Saturday morning, his quiet day of rest.

I heard my father approaching, he made a right turn in the kitchen and immediately snatched my

younger brother by the shirt. I was closest to our kitchen back door.

I reacted quickly, I bolted out the back door in the kitchen to the back yard and ready to leap over

our back yard fence and run away from home forever...seriously, I was not going back home.

I didn't know where I was running too, but I knew I denitely wasn't going back to our house.

Suddenly, I heard my father burst out in laughter and say "I almost got 'cha. Come 'on back in this

damn house" ...still laughing. That was denitely a good sign, but was it a trick?

After a few moments, I complied. Had I not, his rath might have reappeared..."I said come back in
this MF, goddamn house!" Sounding like  Samuel L. Jackson. Again, I didn't want to hear that twice.

You see, my father once said in reference, that he never spanked my butt and I never remembered
him doing so. In eeing I was just trying to protect my perfect no-spanking record.