Despite this his father pushed him to the path of a surgeon. He couldnt let him down so he did as he was told. He graduated medical school and went to... work at his fathers hospital. He spent his first few weeks there doing his best to fly under the radar. That was until one fateful day. Joe was sitting in the break room. He was silently enjoying a sandwich well reading the newspaper. He let out a small sigh of happiness. Despite all the fear going in he had settled into the hospital quite well.. We just lounged on the couch, watching some Saturday Morning Cartoons. We laughed that we were actually awake when the cartoons were on.Eventually Jackie and Amanda came downstairs too.We went into the kitchen where we found her cook Lauren had set up a huge breakfast ordeal, kind of like a buffet. We thanked her, and then dug in. We were all sitting around the dining room table eating when her parents came down."Good morning," her mom said to us, smiling and accepting a cup of coffee from. I got the whip and snapped it a few times to show her I knew how to use it. I flicked the whip and it made a loud cracking sound. Her whole body reacted to the noise. Michelle said, I love the sound of the whip before I get my ass beat. Then she said, I want ten lashes, start out light with the first five and give me five hard ones. I want one of the last five to be as hard as you can hit me, so it really hurts and leaves a mark. I blindfolded her to make the anticipation of the pain greater.. This made every confrontation more heated and emotional than it needed to be."You better just try to calm down for a minute, and think about what you're trying to accomplish with this phone call, Gene. I'll discuss these things with you, but only if you can speak calmly and rationally." I'm not the one who isn't being rational." Gene bit off the words as he spoke them. I could feel him trying to rein himself in though."It sounds like both our families have conflicting traditions, Gene. In my.