Mexikid Stories by Pedro Martin for August 09, 2024

I am guilty of #13 with my abuela when I was a kid.

My gramma used a shillelagh.

Martin is right up there with Kelly, Watterson, Thompson etc. Genius.

Dad went for a belt.

Looks like you’ve, uh, touched a nerve, Sr. Martin!

OK, it’s “blood money” but it still spends. You can pay for sedatives to help you sleep nights (while your poor mother is up all night ironing your father’s huaraches). :)

It isn’t about manners for me; it is frugality. If I stop at a gas station on a desert highway and buy a small bottled water, I hear my Father’s voice in my head. “You paid a dollar for WHAT?”

Good old fashioned manners is something that stays put in the Mexican community, and many other Hispanic communities as well. I can recall many of these discipline methods, the guilt is very effective. In Latin America and specially in Mexico your family is everything and you do not answer back to your parents in a rude way, even in old age.

What the heck is a trapper keeper?

Are we waiting in vain for new stories from the Mexikid? I sure hope not.