Bossman was being obnoxiously loud and woke up Rat Dad.
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I could talk shit to my dad, but if I talked shit to my mom, a smack in the chops was on my menu that night.
Once, influenced by seeing a friend behave this way at his home, I thought it was a good idea to call my mom a bitch. That word was not even out of my mouth before my dad informed me in physical language that that shit did NOT fly under his roof.
I was always amazed as a kid at the shit parents put up with. Because I didn't get away with that shit. At least not at home. Now at school I got away with murder.
Pretty much this. At risk of sounding like a boomer, all of Boss’s problems (degenerate gambling, crack smoking, leeching on his parents, etc.) could have been solved by getting his ass absolutely beaten like a rented mule when he started acting like this as a teenager.