“Please let us in. My husband’s trying to kill me!” We hid there until the police arrived. In the end, they let Dad off with a caution. They always gave Daddy the benefit of the doubt. The attitude at the time was to tell the man, “Hey, buddy, if you get rough with your wife, it’ll scare the kids. Go walk it off.” The cop even came inside and asked Mom, “Do you think you did anything to trigger this?”
