Our father was like a dictator. We all had jobs as teenagers, dad would take our money and give us an allowance and keep the rest for himself and mom. They would eat out a restaurants and go out and have a good time. They were getting three extra checks a week. One from my 17 year old brother Dan and two from me and my twin sister, we were 16. Dan told dad he needed gym shoes for school, dad snapped and told him he has a job, go buy his own shoes. The following week when Dan got paid, he bought a new pair of tennis shoes, they costed him $90, almost his whole weeks pay. Dad took him back to the store and told him to return the shoes. When he did dad took the refund a and told him he can go barefoot for being stupid andm payjng so much for tennis shoes.
They argued and dad beat him and three him out. Dan quit school and went to work full time. He rented a sleeping room, dad went there and demanded Dan give him his whole check. Dan refused and dad put him in the hospital. Dad didn’t even get arrested. When Dan got out he took his GED test and went I to the Army. When Amy and I graduated high school, we wanted to go to college but dad told us to get jobs and hand our checks over to him and someday we’ll have something. I reminded dad we have nothing now and we’ve been handing our checks over to him for over 2 years. He ordered us out of his house telling us the free ride was over. He wouldn’t even let us have our own clothes, we left with what we had on. We both joined the Army, dad contacted us and told us to have our life insurance made out to him, Amy told dad to f*** off.
We both retired after 20 years, Dad is still in. We still see our parents, dad reminds us how we owe him for raising us. Amy is the hot head, she tells him he’s a f****** mooch. We see Dan often, he’s stationed here in Fayetteville but Dan has never spoken to dad since the hospital. Dad still says “Danny still remembers that a** stomping I gave him, he’s got another one coming is he shows his a** around here again” our father is a POS. Dan could break him in two if he wanted.
