When i was a kid, remember being told i was special, and i remember wondering why the idiot who told it to me looked like a hippie, of course, at that age i had no idea what a hippie was, its only in years to come tat i was able to identify the jobless tree hugger. Your Kid may be special to you, which is why you hang their shitty artwork on your office wall, but remember this, you may think your little bundle of joy is the specialest little bubby bunnymuffins in the world, but NEVER let it find out it is, not at least until it is at least 18.
My mother was an expert in child education, fuck a degree in childcare, my mum had lessons from the best, my GRANDMOTHER!!!!! When we were kids, Grandma was like Al Pacino in the Godfather, i stayed in another town, but tales of her dishing out an asswhooping would always reach my ears. On occasion i travelled back to visit, Grandma would always have a whole aresenal of canes and feather dusters for the little mischief maker, im pretty sure she had it color coded as well. Nowadays, i still have a few cousins who are kids, and nothing warms my heart more than when they misbehave and their parents dont do shit, and my grandma lays down the ownage and gets medieval on their ass. Them kids and parents have no one else to blame other than themselves, in the grand scheme of things, no one is special. We just play a part. By buying kids happy meals, and letting them watch and listen to stupid kiddy loving media garbage, u make them think they are more than what they are, and hence they develop something annoying called an attitude. It is this exact attitude that causes them to utter stupid phrases like "you cant hit me, its physical abuse" to my grandma. At this point my grandma gives them the famous double Cane physical therapy. In my entire life, i have heard of the triple cane being used only once. I still get shivers down my spine. Although i had never received an asswhooping from grandma, i had witnessed one before, and i remember the victim running in my general direction with grandma close behind, it all happened so fast that i couldnt get out of the way in time, i may have gotten a whip or to like shrapnel from gunfire, but i told myself, at least im not my cousins sorry ass.
My mother may have been brought up by the best, but im sure glad she wasnt as nazi like as my grandmother, however, this is still considerably fierce compared with normal levels of beatings. My mother had 4 main weapons in her aresenal as i will list below in chronological order:
1. The Cane
Pain Rating: 9/10
Age of Use: as far back as i can remember - age 16
Origins: Passed on down from Grandma to Mum
When getting an asswhooping, it can be pretty boring, apart from jumping and screaming in pain, your brain is otherwise unoccupied. During times like these, i would wonder, plan and scheme as to how i could avoid such an asswhooping again. It was sessions like that which i credit to developing my creative thinking skills.
My mother would whoop my ass like the world fencing champion, in time i learnt a few things:
- Shut the fuck up: while getting an asswhooping, talking only increases your chances of saying something stupid like "its not my fault" and getting more licks. only utter the words "sorry" in addition to screams of pain.
- Scream like a motherfucker: believe it or not, parents dont actually do it because they like it, the louder and more believable your screams of pain are, the more my mum tends to ease up. The screams signify a loss of dominance which got my ass in trouble in the first place.
- Time the whips: the cane only hurts when it lands exactly where it is supposed to, when she starts whipping you, immedeately go into gaming mode. There is a time lag when she lifts up her hand to get momentum, it is at this moment u prepare, when the cane comes halfway down, immedeately rotate your body a few degrees, this creates a close miss, which tones down the pain levels while still looking like she landed a whip, at which point u let loose a howl as if she got you for real. I will not lie to you, this is a very hard skill to achieve and even at my peak i could only dodge 50% of the whips, however, if u learn to scream well, it just means u get 50% less whips, which is always good.
2. The Slap
Pain Rating: 5/10
Age of Use: 13 - Present
Origins: My cunning plan to scream louder when slapped rather than caned worked. She actually thinks it hurts more.
You may say, "you still get slapped ?" To which i shall say that my mum constantly warns me that i will still get asswhoopings as long as she is alive, and so although i am now godlike at avoiding an asswhooping, and havent gotten one in years, this is just there for completeness.
As i got older mum moved into the slapping territory thanks to my grand plan, the trick was to make her believe that it hurt more because the older i got the bigger i got and hence the trick was to make her believe that my size somehow lessened the effect of the cane. I did this as mentioned above, by varying howl volume to different artifacts of punishment. Although the slapping phase was less painful, i still found it entertaining to dodge slaps. This however proved to be ineffective. I think because slapping actually means my face coming into contact with the skin on her palm, and she could literally feel how much i got hit. In the end, i got bigger than her by age 17, and i didint have to dodge anymore, it was more of a lets see how many screams i can use to get off.
3. The Punch
Pain Rating: 2/10
Age of Use: 15 - Present
Origins: I got too big
After a while i think she got wise to my screams and she needed a new battle plan, this was the turning point in my asswhooping, she could go back to the cane or come up with a new plan, im glad she chose to punch. Throwing a punch is actually more tiring, it requires the puncher to commit more energy than a slap or whip. I.e. she got tired a lot faster than me getting tired screaming.
4. The Cold Treatment
Pain Rating: 10/10
Age of Use: 15 - Present
Origins: I got too big
After she discovered this form of punishment, she just killed it, no more fun. I wont lie to any of you, when she was using the past few forms of punishment, there was many a time i was merely testing the water and seeing how far i could push my luck. I found it extremely exhilirating to see how much i could bullshit my way out of a tight situation.
By using the cold treatment, the guilt alone gives u stomach aches and makes u feel genuinely terrible, at least after all the previous beatings, i would feel like i just had a good exercise and sit down at the dinner table and everything was as if i just got back from playing basketball. I have yet to discover any way to get myself out of the cold treatment other than doing what she wants. In recent years, im either being a better son or im shes getting more lenient as i havent gotten any punishment for ages.
Bloopers & Notes:
1. There is another form of punishment she had called the ear tug, but
this is not considered a real form of asswhooping as it hurts way less
than any of the above. Via extreme sneakiness and cunning, i managed to
trick my mum into using this form of punishment. It started when i was sitting on the sofa listening to my dad talk about how he hated getting pulled by the ears by my grandad when he was a kid, at that moment i had a brilliant idea, and commented on how i hated it too, knowing fully well mum was listening, and i added how glad i was she didint include it much in my asswhooping, after that, voila, she toned down the cane and more non painful earpulling. There is also a trick to this. When getting ur ear pulled, always provide resistance, but not too much, enough so it simulates her pulling on some weights. This is to tire her out and avoid losing computer game time.
2. as you can see, i invested more effort into avoiding the cane as that is by far the most painful when i was a kid.
3. The purpose of me writing this is because i want all my younger cousins to realise the depth i went into to avoiding an asswhooping. There are other ways such as genuinely realising you are wrong, but that usually comes naturally as most of the things we do as kids are pretty stupid anyway and becomes obvious naturally. Take this chance to develop your quick thinking skills and your physical movement. It helps you a lot more in later life.
4. If you thought all that was glorious, i shall now tell you of a time i was a fucking idiot. my mum would usually whip me while i was wearing my pants, and during my initial trials, i would insert toilet paper into my pants just before i got an asswhooping, and keep the screaming up. Unfortunately, i accidentally blabbed this out to my mum once and that still ranks as one of the stupidest mistakes i have ever made in my life.
5. My dads betrayal : as a kid, i would always wonder after my asswhooping how my mother knew everything wrong i did, what i didint tell you was back in those days, unknown to me, my mum and dad had a plan, dad would be my confidante, my best friend. and my mum would be the disciplinarian. hence everytime i did sth wrong, i would tell my dad, and we would laugh about it, and he would tell my mum, and i would get fucked up. I actually had this misconception that she had mothers intuition up until middle of my university years. One chinese new year, my dad sat down and gloated how i was his best fren and that my mum was such an asshole for being mean. my mum heard that and told me the truth. i would be more pissed off, but i found it very educational and funny.
6. My other crowning achievement was to negotiate a deal with my mother which allowed me to skip class and do whatever i liked as long as my grades in high school kept me in the first 2 classes.
Conclusion:
I am extremely thankful for all the asswhoopings i got,i am who i am today because of it and i cannot imagine what an asshole(how much more may be more accurate) i would be if i didint get those asswhoopings. Although i got my ass kicked a lot, some of the values do get through my thick skull, and im thankful for that. My mum is now old and she cant dish out much punishment anymore hence making me feel too guilty to piss her off nowadays just so i get an adrenaline rush.
To my cousins: Im NOT asking you to cause trouble, you can do anything u want provided u dare to tell you parents about it, that was the rule i lived by in later years which was so effective in preventing getting my ass kicked. It also kept me out of trouble.
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