How the hell did our forefathers make it....

[Carrie]

Nick - it's because we were raised right! And now they've taken away our ability to do that. Hell if you swat a kid's butt (padded with a diaper even) with your bare hand in a store you'd better be prepared to spend the night in jail and never see your kids again. *grrrrrr*
So now we get disrespectful clods like Groggy who think the world owes him something. Namely respect, even though he doesn't give any to anyone but himself.

LOL@ Peaches' dad and the gum - daddy's girl
(Psst - I was one too, hehe)

Okay who got the belt?
My Dad is a BIG man. A very big, patient teddy bear. But boy when his patience wore out... phew.
He had a way of folding his big leather belt in half and pushing the ends together, then *SNAPPPING* them taut - the mere sound of that could straighten up a room of misbehaving kids instantly.
Hell I'm 33 now and it could probably *still* strike fear into my heart, LOL.