A ‘difference’ in punishment…

Posted on by June 1, 2014

The old folks will recognize ‘this’ character…

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And I think most of us grew up pretty damn well…

Sigh…

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A ‘difference’ in punishment… — 23 Comments

  1. I say, Boy, I say… I got my share of woopings and had to go and cut my own ‘switch’ from the tree or bush. My parent’s never went to court if I got my butt popped for acting up in the grocery store or church, either.

  2. My upbringing included a lot of ass whoppings.

    Looking back, I deserved all of them, though at the time I was of a different mind-set.

  4. Yep, what LL said. I deserved most of them; the rest were of the “well, if you didn’t do it this time, you’ve done something, haven’t you?”

  5. rarely needed a whuppin’, but when i did? i sure as hell did. i STILL fear *that* tone in my mom’s voice.

  7. Ma still can give “that look” that strikes fear into me =)

  9. Heh. I never thought Leghorn and I would have sumthin’ in common… but we DO.

  10. Amen to “Old NFO” . We did grow up pretty damn well. My Mother was my teacher in 1st thru 3rd grade. (two room school) I had to fetch my own switches & if my MISTAKE was too bad she had my Dad give me another one when I got home. I am a better person for all that Corporal punishment! The new generation of “educators” have failed on about all fronts. They must be doing something right, I just can’t decide what that might be at the moment!

  12. And we drank out of garden hoses, rode bicycles without 50 lbs of padding, went wild on swing sets and jungle gyms

    AND WE SURVIVED!

  13. I got a lot of switchings. I can still see my mom stripping the leaves off those thin branches, dang they stung on a bare butt.

  14. My Mom used a piece of a harness trace where it split from one into two legs. All were of the same length but the single one was the handle. SO__ _ the double leg left you with twice as many stripes!

  16. I remember the taste and vocabulary enhancer qualities of Ivory soap, too.

  20. Bob- Yeah, same here…

    Rick- Lucky you! I wasn’t ‘that’ smart…

    Ed- That too!

    Hymie- I had to go get a new one every time…

  21. My mom “upcycled” before it was cool. She repurposed the dime store paddle ball (after the elastic broke and the ball was lost) and kept it on top of the fridge. She wasn’t going to waste precious time going outside to cut a switch, and look at how well I turned out!

  22. (1) Mouth washed out with soap for saying “damn”
    (2) whooped with a ruler on bare backside for being disrespectful to elder in front of classmates I was trying to impress
    (3) grounded for a month for lying to my Dad as to where I took the car (it was just to the park, but it was NOT the library).

    Have a wallful of medals and awards on a wall, along side of the memory of the bumper that got knocked off a VW as I wasn’t looking when I was backing out (that was ANOTHER grounding).

    We paid our dues and gave them something to be proud of. I wouldn’t have had it any other way.