My dad, in my whole life that I knew him, (he’s dead) was always a pacifist, with a hippy mindset. War sucks, love everything, money’s retarded, that kind of stuff. I mean seriously. But according to my grandmother, as a teen, 15/16/17 or wtv, he wasn’t like that. He carried a knife strapped to his thigh, and beat the crap out of people who dared to speak to him into any language other than French. O_o Wow. He never told me any of that haha. Didn’t change much for me, I mean, I’ve heard worse things done by 15 year old boys lol.
Also, my grandma used to give him bus money to get to school.
But in the Winter, he’d keep the money, hide behind something, and when the bus came, he’d run behind it, grab on to the bumper and let himself be dragged to school. Lmao. This he told me himself. It’s hard to imagine. You’d totally get arrested if you did that today. I wonder how the hell he got away with it.
My mom, not so sure. She talked a lot about her past, but it was all anecdotes in which what was happening was the center of attention, rather than what she was doing there and how she took it. Either that, or she just bitched about people she didn’t like, telling anyone willing to listen that they’re the scum of the Earth. I bet she said that about me when I wasn’t around, haha. Mostly though, she just freaked me out with all her nightmares she got, and relaid to me.
I was also informed that my mother suffered a lot of abuse from her parents as a kid. The only picture I’ve ever seen of her as a little girl is this black and white picture. She’s standing by a chicken coop, looking really sad and a little angry.
Not anything really dramatic, but my dad once admitted to me that he cheated on my mom. However, it’s almost a fact she cheated on him a shitload of times lol.