Transcript
There was one incident that really stands out in my memory
and, I remember, frightened the daylights out of me.
I remember the whole family was upset,
the whole neighborhood was upset.
There was a neighbor who, I mean, he wasn't a bad guy,
but I guess he was, like, a bit of a smart aleck,
and he had gotten a motorcycle, and he just kept riding it
up and down the street over and over again, and it was loud,
and it was disruptive, and it was during the summer,
so the windows were open, and it was making a racket.
And I just remember him absolutely losing it
and actually going upstairs and grabbing a rifle, his rifle,
and going downstairs and threatening to kill him.
And it was like he was possessed.
And it was so unlike my father, I mean, you know,
any time he lost his temper it was always very,
sort of a rational losing temper.
It was a disagreement, it was something,
and it wasn't uncontrollable, but in this situation,
he just completely lost it.
And everybody was yelling to get him to stop and, "Please,"
you know, I remember myself saying,
"Please Daddy, please Daddy, don't," you know.
It was very upsetting because I didn't recognize him,
and I just didn't know where that came from.
And it really, I mean, the neighbors were upset
because he was very well thought of in the neighborhood,
but everybody was upset.
They were upset about the kid on the motorcycle,
but they were, you know, disturbed
that my father had lost it like that.
We were upset, and it was scary.
And I didn't know where that came from.
That's one incident.