Oh, man. Pulling right on the heart strikes! Ouch. I feel for them.
What a f***ing prick, that father of theirs, stealing their hard-earned shillings. Geeze. I'm at a lose for words this makes me so angry that people do this out of teaching people lessons, and he didn't even know what it was! Arg...
This reminds me of the time that my father, of whom I went to live with for one year, took away my absolute favorite tape "Gun's N' Roses - Use Your Illusions 2." I was in 6th or 7th grade at the time. Even though I'd listened to it hundreds of time, he took it away. The lesson learned: don't sing out loud and don't tell him that I have another copy! hahaha
He was a bit of a prick alright, but as you say, from things like this we learn.
Thanks again for hosting this. I'm really enjoying it.
Ohhhh - (1) the story (more on that to come) and (2) the confiscated death-metal (heavy metal) tape. Reminds me of my sister Julie in 1974. Dad, who never understood song lyrics, inexplicably heard them one day, correctly.
Why don't we d-do it in the road...
He stomped into her room and grabbed The Beatles White Album, ready to shatter it.
"I paid ten dollars for that!"
He couldn't smash ten dollars.... this is the man whose arsenal of jokes included the "Pollock" who dropped a penny down the outhouse hole. Then he threw a dollar bill in and went after it. Because it wasn't worth the trouble and mess to go after just a penny...
(Dad take up to ten minutes to tell one joke. I cut to the chase. And nobody laughs.)
You had another copy - go Tristancarax!!!!