Some of you know that Dad was stationed at the same base in Japan as me. Atsugi was cool and just beyond the barracks is a small park. Dad was a small guy when he was in the navy too, around 135 lbs. just like me.
Dad was at a picnic at the park with some of his buddies. One of them was a guy named DeSanti, he was a muscle bound guy..short and so stocky that he couldn't hardly put his arms down to his side. DeSanti liked to push his weight around and picked on guys all the time, typical bully. So DeSanti was acting like an ass and picking on a little fat guy that was a friend of Dad's. Dad told him to leave him alone so DeSanti focused in on Dad. He said, "I'll take you up in these woods and whoop your ass Tom." Dad told him, "Let's go!"
So on the way into the woods DeSanti started telling Dad, "If you tell everybody I whipped your butt, I'll let you out of this." Dad kept walking and figured DeSanti was just trying to get out of the fight. Anyway they got into the woods and Dad started popping him about the head and face. DeSanti was so stocky that he was slow as hell. Dad just steadily hit him anytime he wanted. When they were both out of breath Dad told him, "Now you leave me and my friends alone DeSanti!" Dad went back down the hill and rejoined the party. He sat down and cracked open a cold one, when somebody yelled, "Look out Tom, here comes DeSanti!" He turned around just in time to knock DeSanti out cold. After that day, DeSanti couldn't pick on anybody anymore, everyone knew that he wasn't as tough as he looked. You should hear my Dad tell this story...He gets all excited and laughs his ass off.