WARNING NOT SUITABLE FOR YOUNGUNS!!!!  Arthur was a good man but with a couple of blazing faults.  He had an inferiority complex and a drinking problem but besides those he was a good man.  He alway felt that my mother had married beneath him.  He was a janitor which he viewed as way below a doctors wife.  Nancy, my mother, never let him forget that he had gotton real lucky when she chose to marry him. Yech!  O.K. the next couple of stories I still think of as cute so I still laugh at them.  One day, being rather bored, the neighbor came over and complained that our dog has defecated on his perfect yard.  Isn't that classier than saying he said the dog shit in his yard!!! lollol  He told scott, the younger son and myself to go pick it up.  Now this was way before leash laws and the such.  Where a dog shit was no ones business but the doggies.  After ignoring him for awhile back he came to demand that we go pick up the poop and I thought he had really pushed it so I said no, he said "I will call the cops on you"  That was the start of the crab apple war.  We lived in a ranch house near a field and there was a crab appletree out front redundant with spoiled crab apples.  I grabbed a ladder and climbed onto the roof and got ready to shoot the guy with a crab apple from my sling shot.  he approached and bam, I got him square in the face.  Then the cops rolled on in.  Trying to talk me down while I peppered them with crab apples.  One cop was trying to climb the ladder while the other was trying to talk to me.  The cop on the ladder had his gun drawn!!!!!!  Just as the cop got onto the roof up pulls my mother, demands that I get down and I obey!  I got a heck of a beating for that stunt but it was worth it!!!  Some of my stories still cuz me laughter!!!