Kind of I guess. At first your comment made me mad, then I spent a minute thinking about it and that’s pretty much where he stood haha.

When I say he was dumb, my good lord I couldn’t come close to giving an example that would do him justice.

He was an abused kid though, and being tough meant a lot to him because that’s how he survived.

A story for fun.

My mom was very religious. Her greatest dream was to have him see the world the way that she did, and she tried, and she tried. She finally got him to go to church with her. He stopped drinking, he stopped using drugs. We were leaving church one night and going to his parents . Some of his old buddies stopped him in the road, they walked up and the one guy said, “hey Henry, what the fuck is going on, buddy?”

He said, “I’m trying to do right and raise my kids right. I would appreciate it if you didn’t cuss in front of my wife and kids.“

Dude, thought he was joking. He said, “oh bullshit, Henry going to fucking church.”

My stepdad said, “I’m going to give you one more chance before I make you regret cussing in front of my wife and kids.”

Dude said, “I don’t fucking believe this, Henry the Christian.”

My dad got out of the car and knocked every one of his front teeth out. People were fucking terrified of him. The lady across the street called the cops. The cop showed up, “Henry, we hear there’s some fighting going on down here.” My dad said, “ain’t nobody fighting here, so you can just go on up the road.”

The cop replied, “well then what happened to him?”

My dad said, “He fell.”

The dude looked at the police officer and said, “he’s right, I fell off the bridge.”

The cops pulled out and left while this dude stood here, holding his teeth and crying like a toddler.

Now in my dad’s mind, (step dad, but raised me), He was teaching us this big lesson in that moment.

Poor guy was so stupid that he didn’t realize that violence was not a lesson you teach children. I was terrified, but my brother thought he was the coolest motherfucker who ever lived in that moment. Needless to say, we took drastically different routes for a very long time in our lives.