http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11514522/adrian-peterson-minnesota-vikings-indicted-child-case Is it possible that all the shit that's going on in the NFL is contributed to roid rage?
What...you've never been hit with a branch? I think his choice was very green of him, environmentally conscious.
Hell I grew up in an orphanage so I was hit with a lot of things, I just thought this shit went out with the wood sheds.
...I was gonna post the same link in the Ray Rice thread. ...I'm not a religious person, but I am a spiritual one. And IMO, things really started going from bad to worse when the liberals took both prayer and the paddle out of the school system ...in retrospect, everyone of the ass whippings I got as a youngster were deserved and I hate to think how I might have turned out if Mom and Dad had "spared the rod". Hell, Mom used to makes us go pick our own switch...now that was "cruel"...lol
He'd put a belt, a stick and a wrench on the table and say choose. Oh I got to go with the belt sport. Nah, I'd pick the wrench...because, fuck him, that's why. Good Will Hunting, its not your fault scene.
Those Willow tree branches sure smarted. My mother would send me up stairs with a "wait till your father comes home". Upon arrival she'd drop the dime on my transgression. Hearing him come up the stairs to administer punishment was a painful as the actual thing.
I remember one time (I must have been about 11) & I was told "Go get something for me to hit you with" (I know dumb) I came back with a pillow. Apparently he didn't appreciate my humor & instead proceeded to beat the piss out of me with a radiator brush.