BILL CADY Word Count: 149,227 - At My Friend's Place

Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 42
With saucer-sized eyes, she forgave him, but wouldn‟t stop looking at me.
I made Bob promise he wouldn‟t hit her again, using the voice that couldn‟t
possibly belong to me. Then I did my “John Wayne routine” and strode across the street.
I don‟t know what happened with Connie after that, but I was still a virgin. She
wasn‟t the girl who finally deflowered me, so it must not have been much. A lesson
learned, perhaps? Bust your ass. Risk it for some girl, only to find she gives her favors
to someone else?
We had one more “event” with the Cobb family. Personally, I was pretty much
astonished when it failed to make the national news. Merle was sitting on his porch one
evening. He‟d been insulting Mom for a good hour or more so far. I loved my Mom, and
didn‟t want anyone to disrespect her, but I didn‟t really feel I could whip an adult. Not at
ten years of age.
Confidence issue on my part, maybe?
My old man came home from work shortly after nine. Merle was running at full
tilt. Dad went inside and removed his suit, then came back out in some casual clothes. A
couple minutes later, this craven coward … yup, my old man … got up and walked over
to Cobb‟s property.
Merle was obviously a bully. I‟m sure he‟d been one since he was a little boy,
and he surely passed it along to his son, Bob. Merle was now facing “The Coward of the
County”, no matter what county you‟re in.
I watched it happen with my chin hanging. I couldn‟t believe my old man had the
guts to talk back to another adult! After a couple minutes of listening to Merle‟s filthy
mouth, my old man hauled off and smacked the bastard! Yeah, he did! A right cross to
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