^^^ Truth^^^

Do you get a certificate if you have felt the pain from all of them?

You get a certificate with first one named and a space with each other one listed.
From there, you get a gold star for each of the others as you "earn" them...Pretty sure I doubled up on a few.

Worst sound in the world was the belt sliding out of Dad's belt loops.

I can hear the leather snapping through the loops now

Oh the memories. Dad said "Do so & so again son and you won't be able to sit down for a week", and he meant it.

It’s why I to this day don’t have an [censored]!

I think that happened to me twice. Mom was a great healer.

A green peach tree limb and a piece of garden hose would leave a pretty good whelp too...those older hoses were kinda stiff.

I saw my Uncle Jack jump in a creek and rescue his best coyote chasing hound from a killer raccoon.
The coon climbed up on his head and was doing his best to drown the hound.
Uncle Jack clocked the coon with a large stick and pulled the hound out of the creek.
The coon didn't fare well.