# Childhood memories of your dad punching some guy out **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 20, 2013, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-memories-of-your-dad-punching-some-guy-out/653436 "2013-03-20T11:11:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-memories-of-your-dad-punching-some-guy-out/653436/21 "2013-03-20T22:55:07Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > That’s my [child] you’re bullying!" (He said my gender wrong, but so did most people back then; it was 1970, I think.) Wait, your dad didn’t remember your gender in the heat of the moment? ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-memories-of-your-dad-punching-some-guy-out/653436/22 "2013-03-20T23:52:58Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > (OT) “Uh” “Um” “ahem” > > Maybe not as common as typing with one’s trachea. Is it prolapsed or just condescending? Lol. That awkward moment when you realize you’ve outed yourself as having grown up kinda poor. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-memories-of-your-dad-punching-some-guy-out/653436/23 "2013-03-21T04:59:31Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I also have no memories of this, but my mom does say that once, before I was born… Really, all you have to say is the “before I was born” part. We’ll then assume that you have no memories of it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-memories-of-your-dad-punching-some-guy-out/653436/24 "2013-03-21T12:55:01Z")
In my small home town my father had a reputation as a fighter. His reputation kept him out of fights for the most part. I saw him do some damage to a guy who called him a liar----I was eighteen at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-memories-of-your-dad-punching-some-guy-out/653436/25 "2013-03-21T13:37:27Z")
Once I was in the car with my dad when a guy came out of nowhere and we ever-so-slightly hit him. We came out, he was on the florr “writhing in pain”. He had bloodied bandages that were dirty and the blood was dry, so it was obviously a scammer. My dad told him “let’s go to the clinic”. Guy gets in the car. A couple of block from there, my dad tell him "can you open the door and check the tyre, I think it’s low. He does it and when the guy leans out my dad, not the most athletic man around ieven in his prime, shoves him out of the car with a kick. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-memories-of-your-dad-punching-some-guy-out/653436/26 "2013-03-21T14:08:06Z")
> [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](#): > > Wait, your dad didn’t remember your gender in the heat of the moment? More like general ignorance in the cold of existence. But that would be a completely different topic, so I’ll not sidetrack this one. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-memories-of-your-dad-punching-some-guy-out/653436/27 "2013-03-21T15:16:17Z")
> [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](#): > > Wait, your dad didn’t remember your gender in the heat of the moment? \*\* Johanna\*\*'s transgender. Now how her dad was supposed to know that when she was **ten** , I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-memories-of-your-dad-punching-some-guy-out/653436/28 "2013-03-21T15:30:16Z")
My dad was a big guy but more likely to get someone laughing than to get into a physical fight. As far as I know he never had a fight since he left the Marine Corps in 1946. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-memories-of-your-dad-punching-some-guy-out/653436/29 "2013-03-21T16:58:16Z")
My Dad was both a very cerebral man and a macho, old-school Irish Catholic disciplinarian. He was an English teacher in a rough neighborhood. I never saw him in any kind of a fight, but he always kept a pool cue stick in his car. For years, I had no idea why. Only gradually did it dawn on me that he was driving each day into a neighborood where he might need to bludgeon someone with it. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-memories-of-your-dad-punching-some-guy-out/653436/30 "2013-03-21T21:10:19Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > \*\* > Johanna\*\*'s transgender. Now how her dad was supposed to know that when she was **ten** , I don’t know. I wasn’t implying that he was supposed to know, just noting that it generally wasn’t known. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-memories-of-your-dad-punching-some-guy-out/653436/31 "2013-03-22T10:55:21Z")
Dad came close once. When I was a teenager I came home frightened by some guy tailing me in his truck and I woke Dad out of a dead sleep. He charged out the back door to where the guy had jumped the fence intot he backyard. The guy took off running, then Mom hopped in the car to give chase. Couldn’t catch him but he would’ve been in a worse world of hurt if Mom had got a hold of him. he’s still out there… potential rapist peeping-tom abductor scumbag. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-memories-of-your-dad-punching-some-guy-out/653436/32 "2013-03-22T15:21:42Z")
> [@JerrySTL](#): > > Dad stops the car in the roadway and gets out to discuss the issue with the jerk. As I was watching, the guy makes a fist and my father decks him. Dad gets back into the car and we drive off. The jerk start driving but stays way back. > > My dad spent two tours in the Marines. At first glance, I read this as _“spent two hours in the Marines,”_ fully expecting you to follow up with _“before breaking the drill instructor’s arm.”_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-memories-of-your-dad-punching-some-guy-out/653436.md?page=1)