At ten years old, I was falsely accused by a teacher of leng a jump rope on the playground. She assigned me the outrageous punishment of writing 5000 sentences. I refused.
10歲時老師冤枉我把跳繩落在操場上，竟然罰我寫5000個句子，我沒同意。

She sent me to the principal's office. He used a wooden paddle and beat my buttocks and back of legs 10 times.
她把我送到校長室，校長用木板打了我屁股和腿后面10下。

I'll never forget the smile on his face as he told me to bend over.
我永遠不會忘記讓我彎腰時他臉上的笑。

I'll never forget the agony of not being able to sit down.
我永遠不會忘記那種坐不下的疼。

I'll never forget the look on my mom's face when she saw my naked butt on the way to the shower; black and blue from the butt to the back of the knee.
我永遠不會忘記我媽媽帶我去淋浴時看見我光著的屁股時臉上的表情，從屁股到膝蓋后面青一塊紫一塊。

She left it to my dad to deal with who only stated that I needed to learn how to avoid trouble.
她把這件事交給我爸爸處理，爸爸只說我要學會怎樣避免麻煩。

I went from a happy schoolboy to an absolute terror.
我從一個快樂的小學生變成了一個十足的混混。

I learned to evade teachers and anyone else in authority.
我學會了躲著老師和其他掌權者。

I played pranks on teachers, let the air out of teachers' car tires, etc.
我對老師做惡作劇，給老師的輪胎放氣。

On days when I knew I would be caught, I wore two pairs of pants and as much underwear as possible.
如果哪天我知道自己會被抓住，就會穿兩條褲子，盡可能多穿內褲。

I would fake the cry when paddled then give my schoolmates a smirk as I came out of the office.
被打時我會裝哭，然后走出辦公室時對其他學生露出得意的笑。

This was at a religious school. The paddling woke me to the fact that these religious authority figures were tyrants. I became an agnostic.
那就發生在教會學校，被打使我認清了一個事實，這些教會的領導都是暴君，我變成了一個不可知論者。

I didn't learn to be care-free and happy again until I had children of my own. They taught me how to laugh again.
我再也沒學會無憂無慮和快樂，直到自己有了孩子。孩子們使我再次學會了笑。

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