““Once, John confronted a neighbor whose son had kicked a ball into the backyard. The boy’s mother apologized profusely and asked for the ball back, but John punctured it and threw it away. He warned that worse would happen if anything like that occurred again. Then he leaned back, cleared his sinuses, and hocked into the mother’s face. That boy, now in his fifties, sat with me in a bar and broke down into tears as he related the story.””
