Even though this wasn’t true, as I’ve already mentioned.
However, she nodded approvingly:
“Damn right – your parents did the right thing by you, young man.”
Just being called ‘young man’ in that firm, quite deep voice of hers made me twitch.
However, that encounter made me determined to cultivate Brenda some more
As I say, it got to my dropping around for the occasional social call.
It was on one such visit that I finally got up the courage to, once more, work the conversation around to discipline.
“Did you have to chastise your boys often?” I asked.
“Pretty much,” Brenda replied firmly without batting an eyelid.
“Mind you, They kinda grew out of it.