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.
SHIVA about 1 month ago
I am guilty of #13 with my abuela when I was a kid.
ART Thompson Premium Member about 1 month ago
My gramma used a shillelagh.
jgreathead about 1 month ago
Martin is right up there with Kelly, Watterson, Thompson etc. Genius.
darcyandsimon about 1 month ago
Dad went for a belt.
darcyandsimon about 1 month ago
Looks like you’ve, uh, touched a nerve, Sr. Martin!
mistercatworks about 1 month ago
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). :)
mistercatworks 24 days ago
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?”
kinich79 8 days ago
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.