The "Old Block" Tells All.

  Looking back 50 years to my youth, I smile, then laugh at myself for thinking I was something special. Surely, I survived SEER training, combat weapon training, and firefighting school at the Marine Corps base. And yes I even passed the basic swimming course at the UDT SEAL base. I earned a Black Belt in Goju Ryu Karate in less than four years. I was a 23-year-old Vietnam veteran when I came home for the last time to claim my promised management position at the New China Club Restaurant. When I met the owner, Mr. Fong, in front of the restaurant, he casually dismissed me with an off-hand wave. I had even gone to school with his daughter, but my reunion and promotion vanished with a wave of his mighty hand! So cool! I stood there eating his dust instead of a combination plate! ("How quickly they forget their promises.) Later, when I moved to San Diego, where my illustrious military training began, I started teaching local, disadvantaged youth the discipline and rigorous martial a

  Good girls are always a challenge for bad boys. Even a choir boy can get lucky with a bad girl! Good girls generally come from good homes, are raised by good parents, and get good grades in school. They are warned about bad boys the day after the first “bumps” appear on their chests. (Some parents attempt to hide said “bumps”, but nature prevails.) If these good parents are well-educated and have a great relationship with their good girl, they sit down and explain the pros and cons of a relationship with a bad boy. However, some good parents lack the knowledge and verbal fortitude to express the intricacies and pitfalls of bad boy tactics and leave an opportunistic opening in their good girl’s defenses, which bad boys easily and eagerly exploit. The question still remains, “Why do bad boys like good girls?” Is it simply the thrill of the hunt? Is it the pursuit of the unobtainable prize? Why don’t we ask a bad boy, and hear what he has to say? THE OLD BLOCK: “Hey, bad boy. Why