OT: If you have a teenage daughter

[Mohoender]

There's the old story I've heard from several directions, and know at least one family that did it. When the boy comes to pick the daughter up (Does that still happen) the father, and in some cases brothers, were either sitting cleaning the family arsenal or stropping one hell of a big knife. No words of threat etc were said, but the message was clear.


Grae

I don't know for US but the Corsicans still do that. Else they are occupied at kiling the pig or the sheep. Actually, girls (and even women) from Corsica always have brothers, someting which is kind of bad news as they might be gorgeous.

The bright side of this is that you might get a strong support for the other women in the family. They usually get the last word.

[Mohoender]

You don't think girls can be punks You're quite mistaken...

I'm already old before my time. And I take high blood pressure and cholesterol medication as well! And I've never even been married or had kids!

Of course I do think they can but then you start to add up a lot.

[JimmyRay73]

There's the old story I've heard from several directions, and know at least one family that did it. When the boy comes to pick the daughter up (Does that still happen) the father, and in some cases brothers, were either sitting cleaning the family arsenal or stropping one hell of a big knife. No words of threat etc were said, but the message was clear.


Grae

A few years back I went to visit a female friend I hadn't seen in a while, and her Dad brought out his .357 to show it to me. She walked into the room and was appalled, snapping "Dad! I'm not a teenager and you don't have to pull that stunt anymore!" We both kinda chuckled, because he really was just showing off his new toy. His reply was along the lines of "If I was gonna threaten him I would have done it when your mom let him drive my car five years ago. I figure you can take care of yourself."

[kato13]

When I was younger and studying martial arts, every time I got injured I would tell myself I was doing this to protect my future daughters. Still don't have any kids, but I know I would be an over protective dad. Which is exactly the way it should be IMHO.

A funny protective dad story. When I was 20 I was dating a girl of Chinese decent whose father didn't want her dating at all. My being non Chinese did not help. At that time I felt no man could take me down due to the fact I had trained for a long time, was in my peak physical condition and filled with a feeling of youthful invulnerability.

She mentioned to me that if he caught us together he would probably want to fight with me. I wasn't scared but I asked some basic "know your enemy" questions. "Oh he knows how to fight from the army" was the first detail I got out of her. Didn't phase me, figured it was basic training or such.

A few weeks later I found out he was some type of instructor in the Taiwanese army. Ok getting a little nervous. Hopefully some type of non combat instructor. After a little more digging. Nope former Taiwanese Special Forces martial arts instructor.

She was lucky I really liked her or I would have bolted right then. Aggressive Special Forces martial arts instructors protecting their daughters can be quite intimidating.

We broke up several month later without any incidents. Later on I actually helped her get away from a semi-abusive boyfriend. After that and her father respected me for protecting her. Still friends with him and her til this day.

I'm lucky I never had to fight him. I sparred with him once. 15 years after the incident I still cannot figure out exactly how he got me in that hold.

[Targan]

Cool story Kato.