When I was about three years old, my cousin Cathy’s parents moved their tiny egg-shaped trailer house under a big shade tree in our front yard. It was about as roomy as a nice bathtub. Like any right-thinking parents with two tiny children, they quickly moved into the house with our family, leaving us with four adults, a six-year-old, a three-year-old, an eighteen month old, and two newborns in a three bedroom house. The women cooked, cleaned and watched the kids together every day. Mother said it was a great time.
Pictured above are my cousin Cathy and me. She was much smaller though only a year younger than I. She also developed a nasty habit of biting. After I was bitten a few times, Mother told me to “bite her back.” She didn’t specify how hard.
The next time Cathy bit me, I bit her just below the eye and hung on. Cathy screamed and Mamas came running. Still I hung on. Mother told me to turn loose but I was too wrought up to hear her. She had to smack me to make me turn loose. It hurt my feelings. “You told me to bite her.”
“I didn’t tell you to bite a chunk out of her face.!”
Cathy had a bruise showing all my tooth prints. It turned from purple to green to yellow. I’m sorry, Cathy.
It’s so funny😂😂😂😂I hope the bruises are gone by now😂😂😁😁😁
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Almost!
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That’s great😂😂😂
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Thanks.
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poor Cathy….and she forgave you? ha
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She did
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You wouldn’t have got away so lightly with me..haha
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Well, she was a baby.
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Does Cathy have a mark on her face to this day ?
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No, Thank goodness!
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And you two are still friends today? Nice going!
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Yes, we love each other!
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Oh my Golly !! I would love to sit and just listen to you talk. I would not be able to stop laughing. You’re “I’m sorry Cathy” struck me as the funniest thing I’ve read in days and possibly weeks. I should probably say I’m sorry Cathy, too.
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Cathy and I had a good laugh over it. Of course, she didn’t remember. Oh, and and I would keep you laughing. I have no shame.
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You are hilarious. I can’t tell you how many times I have burst out laughing when I read your posts. I appreciate your shamelessness.
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I’m glad to have lived long enough to have no shame. It’s the next best thing to being honest, I guess.
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Now if I can only make you spew coffee!
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Okay, but I hope I spew it over the top of the computer and not on to the keyboard! 😉
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I’ll temper my comments just a bit.
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Let’s not get crazy! Don’t temper them. I will get in the habit of raising my chin above the screen when I read you. 🙂
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I’ll bet not too many ER patients gave you a rough time!:0)).
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I actually have had a couple try to bite me.
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Great story! Brings back a memory of mine…my cousin was a biter, so I was told to bite her back…well, I tried, but I couldn’t catch her and make her be still so I could bite her on her back! 🙂
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Sometimes people just don’t cooperate. I am ashamed to tell you but I would have jumped on her if I’d had to to get the job done.
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I am still traumatized from that event.. I am coping with the scars-lol
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This from the poor little bitten girl!
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I am still traumatized from that event . I’m coping w the scars-lol
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Oh, promise not to do it again!
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Something in my bones tell me you two are simply awesome. I can just hear the peels of laughter when you all get together…lotta love resonating between the two of you…I’m betting a deep together family….
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We drifted apart in our teens, but we’re tight again.
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I do so enjoy your stories. To my mind, real life is the most interesting thing to write about. Funny, sad, soulful. every other human interaction is on display. Are you and Cathy “good?” LOL
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Well, so just responded. See Cathy Cupid in comments.
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Oh my! Kids do take things literally and you did what you were told.
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Mother lived to regret it!
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Lol
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Yep.
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Naughty Cathy, I bet she was shocked in more ways than one when you retaliated.
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She was 18 months old in extreme pain. I don’t think she thought much.
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Oh Dear!
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Yeah.
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Lol so funny, I know the so called professionals say you shouldn’t bite your children back if they bite you, but I did that with all three of my boys and I only had to do it once theu never bit anybody again.
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Sad, but it. Works
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