A Story That Will Make You Laugh (or Cry)

[louis c]

27. Wow, I could tell you so much

My Father was 5 foot nothing, with a mouth and balls way bigger than mine.

My Dad supported Ed Brooke, the first Black US Senator. My Dad was my hero.

He loved politics and speaking and writing were his method to get his point across. Coalition building was in my blood. Loyalty was a big thing. I had friends in school. Some were very big, and I made no bones about the fact that if you screwed with me, that I had people that had my back, just as I had theirs at different levels, other than physical.

I never assumed that everyone was my enemy and that I could find a way to make friends who liked the same things that I did. The tough call is being loyal without being used. Clever was always my watch word. I always tried to keep in mind what my dad taught me, trust people until they prove they can't be trusted, not the other way around. When you meet some one, be the best friend you can be to him or his worst enemy, but let him choose.

I wasn't afraid to talk. Sometimes I had to take a bit of a whooping, but whoever did it had to answer to one of my friends, especially if I didn't deserve it.

I had a saying, that I use to this day whenever I am threatened with physical violence. "Beating me up is easy, your problem is going to be outsmarting me."

Genetically speaking, in order for smaller people to have survived in Darwin's theory, they had to be more clever.

As your son gets older, the real world becomes less physical. Fewer and fewer disputes in his life will be settled with a fight and more and more of them will be settled with brains. In my original thread, I walked away as though I was beaten, because I knew that my adversaries would try to physically intimidate me, as well as any scuffle would result in my being put in a bad position at work. Walking out and letting them get the last word could have been humiliating if the two security guards didn't back me up. Now remember, I'm the President of their union in which they just got a big raise. It was easy for them to back me up. That's where the loyalty part comes in. Leaving, knowing that these two guards were on break and being relatively sure they would concur with my suggestion, allowed me to plan out the ending of this story with a high probability that it would be happen as planned.

It doesn't always work out that way, but I win way more times than I lose

I hope that's a bit of help to you.