In my Father’s Day post I wrote that my father “used to break into cars in South Central L.A. to support my mom and little Joe foo’. He even strangled a guy in prison.”
For the curious, here’s the context that was lacking:
My dad worked for Ford Motor Credit, part of his job was repossessing cars at night in South Central L.A. with his retired-Marine partner. Since many of the cars were used, they didn’t have keys to them and had to break in them. I mentioned this in Yvonne’s Ashes (though I believe he stopped doing repo work before I was born).
As for the second part, it was more “choking” than “strangling.” When my father was younger, he had a job as a prison guard at a minimum security prison. Once, one of the prisoners attacked him, so my dad choked the guy unconscious and handcuffed him to a radiator.
He might still be there.
nice.
first.
Boy, what dads will do to support the family!
It appears your father liked dangerous work! Maybe why you are the only blogger I’ve read that is brave enough to take on monkeys & hippies?
OMG, does that make FrankJ a maverick in the field of blogging?
Thats freakin awsome Frank. I wish my dad was that cool. 😛 As for what fathers would do for their family go see Cidnerilla Man with Russel Crowe, great movie.
That’s cool.
It would have been more fun had I been able to turn on that radiator while I had him handcuffed to it! Couldn’t find the key!
That’s my mean old man 🙂
It would’ve been better without the “all important context.”
Leave ’em hanging next time (like the guy on the radiator).
well, I was close … the guard was easy to figure out, breaking into cars – I simply assumed he drove a wrecker …. people are always locking their keys inside.
But great for a laugh
pete