Thread: What Does a Strop Do? The real Answer is Hard to Take

No belts were used in my house. However, my mother, the enforcer, swung a mean switch. A keen, well placed switch will leave a welt even through heavy blue jeans.

Originally Posted by Mcbladescar

That's too funny.
Im a little ashamed to say that as a youngster my old man, who was a barber, used to "correct" me using his strop. Now, using the logic I had accumulated by this time, I figured if i destroyed it, I would never get the strop again. So (here's the hold yer breath part) i took his straight razor and reduced it to pieces no bigger than an inch square
Then again i wasnt aware of the willow switch thing
Sure wish i had that old strop now
Great thread Jimbo
Took me back 40 years

Mike

Wow Mike thats some great logic
What was the final word on that from your old man

Originally Posted by Jimbo

What does a strop do?

I have always preferred to do the work myself and not leave it to some 'strop'. I would never trust a piece of skin from a long dead animal to do anything right, unless I have a tight grip on it!

Well now I had a mena old mother and a mean old grandmother too...But the funniest punishment I ever saw was one given out ny a teacher. I was going to school in the bush as a kid, one of those one room school house things. The class clown took it upon himself to hide the teachers cane during a recess and then started acting up during class. The teacher went for his cane but of course couldn't fine it, so he told the boy to go out and get him something to hit him with. The kid went out and came back with a pissy little twig and told the teacher to have at him. The teacher got a bit more upset and told him to go get something bloody well decent to hit him with. Well it was about an hour before this kid came back dragging an old fence post up the stairs.


Mick

LOL @ Rickybeeroun222
It sure was the final word on that strop
Not the final word though
Still makes me laugh .... I was a rather "spirited" kid
Thanks
Mike

Ours was a 'cat of 9'. Grandparents were shoemakers do it was nicely made.