What Is a woman?
Do you know how hard it is to outrun the neighborhood bully with your panty hose bunching up on you and your bonnet flopping in the wind?
When I grew up in the ‘70s, bullies were everywhere in our suburban neighborhood.
Since I had no older brother to teach me how to fight, my sisters taught me.
I’ll never forget my first scuffle. After a bully shoved me, I looked him dead in the eye and I said, “You are soooooooo immature!”
Luckily, my sister, Kris, blossomed into one of the toughest street fighters in our neighborhood.
When Terry Leper busted up my go-cart, she pummeled him until he blubbered like a baby.
She was barely 5’3” and 100 pounds against Leper’s 6-foot 180-plus pound frame. How she overpowered him is anyone’s guess, but Leper’s reign of terror ended that day.
Then the next day Kris tattled on me for failing to put the toilet seat down.
The point is, I never knew what was coming from my sisters. Every day brought new surprises. But I was never as perplexed as my dad was.
He was forever saying things that caused my sisters and mother to get angry with him. He never understood what he did wrong.
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