I am a non-confrontational type of person, generally out of my
strictly held commitment to cowardice and passive aggressive
retaliation. My brother is more of a toe-to-toe-line-in-the-sand type
who would never walk away from a fight, especially with my dad. While
I would generally defer and wait for a better opportunity to do as I
pleased, Matt would fight for the principle of the thing. This led to
many drawn out arguments between Matt and my dad over the years and
one memorable fight that was deliberately caught on tape. I am not
sure what caused the fight but it turned into a yelling tit for tat
when Matt broke out our camcorder and started recording my dad
yelling and fussing. He was following him around the house recording
and telling taunting him into cursing some more telling him he was
going to show everyone this tape so they knew he wasn't a nice guy.
Matt started saying that he was going to send this tape to my dad's
mom so she could see the way he was acting. Somehow this made my dad
more, as opposed to less, mad. After a few minutes of recording and
taunting my dad actually started walking away and cussing his way
down the hall and into his bedroom to shut the door. Matt kept
yelling at him through the door until he tired of it and we went to
our room and watched the tape which I think has since been lost to
time. It was even funnier on the tiny playback screen.
