We had friends over this weekend. As the adults were sitting outside on the lanai, my friend’s son comes racing out to announce that “T.Puzzle is choking!” We weren’t too concerned as he had just been reprimanded for being a poor sport over a Wii game. He was full of tears and snot so we figured he was ‘choking’ as part of his tantrum. Mad Dog went upstairs to investigate. What did he find? T.Puzzle straddling Full Speed with both of his hands wrapped tightly around his older brother’s neck. Full Speed was so stunned by this choking attack he wasn’t even trying to defend himself.
Thankfully, Full Speed was uninjured. And, thankfully, this happened around the kind of friends who understand that kids lose it and still love us anyway. I tried to imagine if we were only acquaintances how T.Puzzle’s behavior would have gone over. Something like, “Their house was lovely but man, that T.Puzzle is CRAZY! Watch your backs!”
Of course T.Puzzle was punished for his temporary loss of sanity. Mad Dog and I tried to keep it in perspective. Imagine no matter how hard you tried or how fast you ran, you never, ever get to beat your older brother at anything. That has to be a pretty frustrating way to live.
So, even though we understand his motivation, we will never condone choking your brother out.
Technically I guess that is one thing T.Puzzle is better at.
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