Stop Ahead

We were driving home from church one day (Claiborne). I was sitting in the front seat and Daddy was driving. All of the sudden, out of no where, his big hand came up and popped me in the face! I looked at him appalled. I wasn't hurt, but, my goodness, why in the world would he hit me?! I looked at him and said, "What was that for?"

His reply was quite simple, "The sign said stop a head."

We were just coming to a stop sign. It was just out of sight, so there was a caution sign that read, "Stop Ahead." Daddy claimed, he was just obeying the law, by stopping my head.

He still did that to me years later.