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Problem Child
The Life of Riley · October 15, 1948 · 28 min · 4,412 words
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The Life of Riley with William Bandig's as Riley! The family we are about to join out of Chester A. Riley is a typical American household consisting of two parents and two children. Junior is a normal 13 year old boy. Babes is a normal teenage girl. Peg Riley is a normal housewife and Riley himself is, well, he's the father.
Being a typical family though, the Riley's occasionally have their minor disagreements. Daddy, you've simply got to do something about Junior. Why, what's wrong with Junior? Bab's is right, Riley. Lately Junior's been impossible. Do you know what he had the nerve to do?
He took my diary out of my drawer and read it. OK, so he read your diary. And this morning, he was shooting off his V-D gun in the house. And he used my Uncle Baxter's picture for a target.
He shot a hole right through his forehead. Ooh. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha What's the funny? That bullets the first thing that's gotten through your uncle's head and years.
We're talking about Junior. Really daddy, you just have to do something with him. What do you want me to do? Give him away? I've had him 13 years. I got too much money invested in him.
Oh but he gets worse every day. He's a wild boy. Boys will be boys. Peg, they got a lot of energy. When I was a kid, I was always getting into scrapes. I remember once I filled my water pissing with tomato ketchup and squirted it all over a nice, clean bed sheet, hanging on the line.
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