Joe,


 JM>   I was the good child.

  So was I...you didn't have the monopoly on being good. 

 JM>   That night in jail stopped a lot of that.

  Sounds like what happened to my brother when he got stopped for DWI.

 JM>   My father never raised his hand to me.

  Mine did...and with the belt in it.

 JM>   My mother OTOH was known to direct a well aimed smack to the back of
 JM> my head or my bottom from time to time.  I usually learned after the
 JM> first time not to do that particular thing again.  :)

  Experience is the best teacher.

 JM>   I was always told when I reached 18 I was on my own.

  As soon as my brother reached 18, he moved out. I moved out when I got
married, but moved back in to what was my parents house a little more
than a year before my Mom died.

 JM>   He dislikes being called Charles, just as I dislike being called
 JM> William (or any variation of that).

  Just don't call you "Late For Dinner". 

 JM>    But Sissy was a tough old bird who could handle herself, being a
 JM> tomboy and all.

  I never knew it took women forever to get ready, and they had to "sit
for everything" in the bathroom...because I grew up with a brother.

 JM>   Mack and I aren't close either.  When I was eight he was married and
 JM> on his own and by 10 I was an uncle.

  "Your cousin had a baby, but we don't know if it's a boy or a girl, so
I don't know whether you're an aunt, or an uncle". 

 JM>   He and Leona were high school sweethearts and still together after 63
 JM> years.

  That's fantastic. This coming Monday would've been my parents 69th
wedding anniversary, had they lived.

Daryl

... Man swallows frog. Doctors fear he might croak.
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