Help me find a quote about a bad dad from tv/movies?
February 3, 2011 3:17 PM Subscribe
Sorry for the fuzzy details... I'm trying to find the source / remember a quote. It was a story told by a character about when they were a kid. They had been riding their bike, got hurt and was hiding between two cars. The dad finds the kid eventually and doesn't know what to do with the crying child... so he bends down and smacks the kid.
Best answer: Well, I'm ten years old and I just got this new bike. It's a silver Mongoose, you know, like BMX. And I'm skidding out in this puddle like Starsky and Hutch.
- Right.
And my foot slips and the pedal spins around hard enough to break my leg.
- Oh, my God.
But I don't fall off the bike. I keep going down this hill. And I get really scared, you know? So I jumped off the bike and I landed behind this parked car. And I was laying there for a good half hour. And finally I hear my father's voice up the street, and he's calling my name. And I was so happy that he was coming to get me. And he comes around the car, and he sees me lying there. I mean, there was there was blood everywhere.
Anyway, I look up at him and for the first time in my life, I see how much my father loved me. 'Cause he was completely frozen.
- Wow.
You know, it hurt him to see me in that much pain. So he leans down over me and he slaps me across the face.
- What? Why?
I don't know. Maybe he was mad at me for making him feel that helpless...or it was the only thing he could think of. I don't really care anymore. What I think of now is the look on his face when he saw me lying there. And that's what I remember.
posted by sharkfu at 4:34 PM on February 3, 2011 [2 favorites]
- Right.
And my foot slips and the pedal spins around hard enough to break my leg.
- Oh, my God.
But I don't fall off the bike. I keep going down this hill. And I get really scared, you know? So I jumped off the bike and I landed behind this parked car. And I was laying there for a good half hour. And finally I hear my father's voice up the street, and he's calling my name. And I was so happy that he was coming to get me. And he comes around the car, and he sees me lying there. I mean, there was there was blood everywhere.
Anyway, I look up at him and for the first time in my life, I see how much my father loved me. 'Cause he was completely frozen.
- Wow.
You know, it hurt him to see me in that much pain. So he leans down over me and he slaps me across the face.
- What? Why?
I don't know. Maybe he was mad at me for making him feel that helpless...or it was the only thing he could think of. I don't really care anymore. What I think of now is the look on his face when he saw me lying there. And that's what I remember.
posted by sharkfu at 4:34 PM on February 3, 2011 [2 favorites]
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