Self-defense

In an attempt to make self-defense weapons, a little friend and I fashioned knives out of nails by pounding them with a hammer, using a sledgehammer as an anvil. Luckily, we didn’t have to use them.

 

Trouble At School ~ First Grade.

While I was in the restroom at school two big sixth-graders caught me and attempted to put my head in the commode. They weren’t successful.

 

Trouble At School, Again.

The principal came home to visit mother after I punched a kid, who was riding piggyback on another kid's back, in the rear. She asked me why I did it. I said, “Because this other kid did it first.” She said, “ Well, if he had stuck his head into a fire would you have stuck your head into a fire, too?”

"Just Like they like 'em"

I overheard Mother and Aunt Eddie talking about what first grade teachers expected of children that were starting to school. The teachers said that they liked to expose new students to their own teaching techniques, because they might not approve the teaching techniques used at home. So, I told my Mom, “I’m just like they like 'em, I don’t know ‘nothin’.”