[at-l] Slapping (O.T.)

[GoVolsKelly at aol.com (GoVolsKelly@aol.com)]

Ha!  When the neighborhood bully (a boy) was picking on me and sending  me 
home crying every day, (I think I was 6 years old) my mom sat down and taught  
me how to make a really tight fist.  She told me the next time he bullied  me 
to make that tight fist and punch him as hard as I could.  Not in the  arm, not 
in the stomach, but right in the nose.  He bullied me again, and I  did what 
mom taught me.  He never picked on me again. Lesson learned?  If I'm gonna hit 
someone, I'm gonna make it count.  Fortunately, that  was the first and last 
time I ever had to "make it count."
 
GoVols
 
In a message dated 9/20/2004 11:16:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
lthompson@hollins.edu writes:

No.  Or only when some guy is getting fresh.  And then only  in the movies.  
I have never slapped anybody--but I have punched a  few.