My dad won a scholarship to the grammar school and had to run a gauntlet of abuse most days on the way home, until the day a couple of lads threw mud on his uniform.
His mum, my grandma, wept in the shop when they went to buy it because they didn’t have the money to pay for it without severe hardship.
He went home, took his uniform off, got into his old clothes and exacted clinical, and extremely harsh physical revenge.
When his dad, my grandad came home and heard the tale, he went to see the parents of the lads, and the uniform was washed, ironed and returned in time for school the next day.
Both my dad and my grandad would beat me senseless when in their respective primes, yet neither ever raised more than their voices to me.
Times were different, for sure.