Yuri, redneckhiro daughter #3 chasing her two older sisters with a snake.
During the years my kids were growing up, I had a unwritten, unspoken rule of "GET-UP-AND-GO". This meant anytime I yelled for help, my kids had better hustle (hustle to start work and hustle while working). My youngest daughter, Yuri, wasn't much of a hustler so she broke my rule a lot. It made her older sisters Midori and Sayoko so mad that they would threaten to beat her up or just go ahead and beat her up. One day, Yuri took a six foot black snake that one of my workers was playing with because she's not afraid of snakes and chased her sisters with it. She had fun and she was laughing. The only thing that saved her life was that her sisters could outrun her (they had more "GET-UP-AND-GO"). I kept the snake in the cab of my truck. Yuri tried a second time to get it and chase her sisters but this time she pulled the snake's tail and it reached around and bit her. Midori and Sayoko laughed at her. Sayoko teased her and told her she was going to die. My wife said we should take her to the hospital but I said no. We just put some baking soda (my redneck cure for most anything) on the snake bite and she was fine in a day or so.
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Sayoko and Midori kept telling me I was going to die all night, I was tragified that my father didn't comprehend the importance of taking me to the hospital. When I awoke the next morning, (BEFORE my sisters) I immediately woke up and yelled at them, "Too bad! I didn't die!" And made them give back all my stuff they had divided amongst themselves since I was going to be dead and not needing it anymore...
ReplyDeleteAlso they had get-up-and-go because they were afraid of you. I wasn't afraid of you, so why would I hustle?
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ReplyDeleteok,Yuri. What self respecting older sister wouldn't torment you with thoughts of certain death and force you to bequeath your meager possessions to them??? It was either that or beat you up. Please don't antagonize the writer. I have to live with him.
ReplyDeleteand besides. We did give your stuff back to you.
ReplyDeleteI have tell you how impressed I am with the illustrations for these cute little stories. It's so good to hear some of this to share with Chantz and Kota about their grandpa, dad and aunts...but I hope they won't have to go to therapy as adults. A good laugh but hopefully not leading to denial and insanity..LOL!
ReplyDeleteDebi, my little brother will be relieved to know that the picture I have of him on the backhoe wasn't clear enough to post. You can use these stories as perfect illustrations to teach Chantz and Kota right from wrong. and even if they may be funny, it's never good to be cruel to someone else. Now in our case, and in our defense...the stories are a little out of context but that doesn't take away from the fact that were were rotten.
ReplyDeleteYuri, I like your telling of this story the best. I don't remember all of that happening but I remember being rotten and doing and saying stuff like that so I'll let you be right this time. I'm sorry I was mean to you and took pleasure in your impending demise and taunted you further by grabbing up your few possessions (since you wouldn't need them anymore)...no matter how much I thought you deserved it.
ReplyDeleteIt's ok, years of counselling has lead me to admit that I shouldn't have been using a snake to torment you guys... I should've used something like a knife, right Hiroshi?
ReplyDeleteComment from a former neighbor:
ReplyDeleteomg! I'm glad this didn't happen at my house!!!
LOL!!!OMG!!! You kids are truly a redneck family....Hiro you did do good!!!
ReplyDeleteWe should do family get together & share life stories...but we do the cooking!!!
Tex & Harmony Rose
This is my favorite story!! :)
ReplyDeleteYuri still isn't afraid of snakes. Unfortunately, Noah isn't either. He called the kids around to look at a snake he found, just like Yuri does with him.
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