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The Original Mack<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\"Hall
Hall Family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is a tale about the Original Mack\u2026 well, not really a tale, just an acknowledgment of a man. I\u2019m not the Original Mack. I\u2019m not even the second Mack. There were two before me\u2014my dad and my big brother. I\u2019m Mack Hall Jr. II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is about my dad. He was born on August 16, 1949. My pops is the Original Mack, and he was a walking quote. Some of his quotables were less PC than others, and most were not family-friendly, but that\u2019s how he was\u2014no filter. In honor of my pops\u2019 Born Day, I\u2019d like to share a list of some of his favorite quotes and some stories\u2026 in no particular order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • \u201cDi-di Mau\u201d<\/strong> Translation: <\/em>Let\u2019s go He brought that home from Vietnam.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cLet me guess, \u2018not me\u2019 did it.\u201d<\/strong> Translation: Somebody broke or snuck into something and no one would confess. No snitching in our house.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201c\u2026ain\u2019t no ifs, ands, or buts about it.\u201d<\/strong> Translation: No more excuses and no more procrastinating.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cI say what I mean, and I mean what I say.\u201d<\/strong> Translation: Stop asking.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cYou run your mouth like a Japanese radio.\u201d<\/strong> Translation: You\u2019re talking too much.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cThat dog don\u2019t hunt.\u201d<\/strong> Translation: He doesn\u2019t believe you\u2014you need more people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201c\u2026happier than a punk in a weenie factory.\u201d<\/strong> Translation: No comment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cYou can\u2019t bullsht the bullsh*tter\u2026 I put the \u2018B\u2019 in Bull and the \u2018S\u2019 in Sh*t.\u201d<\/strong> Translation: Self-explanatory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cIf that\u2019s true, then Popeye\u2019s a punk and Superman never got off the ground.\u201d<\/strong> Translation: Again, he doesn\u2019t believe you, but it\u2019s a trick\u2014those people don\u2019t exist, so he\u2019s giving you time to get your story straight.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cI don\u2019t play games, games are for children. I quit school because they had recess.\u201d<\/strong> Translation: Self-explanatory. Side note: This was his most repeated quote. Usually, it was said while playing spades or dominoes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    The Original Mack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    The Original Mack made sure that I knew how to cook, clean, and sew.<\/strong> \u201c\u2026so you won\u2019t need a woman,\u201d he said. So when I thought I was going out on a Saturday to turn flips on a pissy mattress with my friends, he said, \u201cNah\u2026 you\u2019re learning how to sew today.\u201d I cried all over the sewing machine while my mom helped me make a teddy bear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Original Mack had way more faith in me than I had in myself.<\/strong> The first time he let me drive was at night on Highway 635. He asked me if I wanted to go out with him to listen to some live jazz at a spot downtown. I said yes, not knowing what he probably had planned all along. The band was outside at a gas station close to downtown (I think it was on Harwood & Corinth). My pops drank beer while the band played. We just leaned against the car (slant-back Lincoln Continental), chilling the entire time. When the jam session ended, we hopped in the car and headed home, cutting through South Dallas. When we got to the freeway entrance ramp, my pops pulled over and said, \u201c\u2026take me home.\u201d I was like, \u201cHuh!?\u201d With cars zooming by on the left and cars merging on the right, I climbed over to the driver\u2019s seat. He walked around to the passenger side, reclined, and closed his eyes. Again, I was 12\/13 years old, Saturday night, 635\u2026 I was terrified. He was chilling\u2014at least on the outside. He\u2019d peek up every now and then to correct me, but for the most part\u2026 he just let me drive. As soon as we got home, he walked in the door and said to my mom, \u201cYour son just drove us home.\u201d And my mom said, \u201cWhat!?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    \u2026ain\u2019t no if ands or buts about it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    The Original Mack was my security guard.<\/strong> A couple of years after driving for the first time, he had enough faith in me to run errands. My big brother came over for a visit, and when he was ready to go, my dad told me to drop him off at the bus stop. Of course, I wanted to drop him off at the closest one on Lake June & Masters, but my big brother wanted to get dropped off further down Lake June\u2026 by Jim Miller. I wasn\u2019t familiar with driving on that side, and I had a wreck\u2014not a regular wreck\u2026 a wreck-wreck. Glasses flew off and everything. My big brother said, \u201cI have warrants, so I can\u2019t be here when the police get here.\u201d \u2026I was like, WTF!? Now I\u2019m by myself, car f*cked up in the middle of the street. I go to the payphone (yes, payphone) and call my dad. Police are there, the people that hit me had some of their people pull up, I\u2019m outnumbered, and my dad pulls up. The cops are asking questions, and one cop says to me, \u201cThis looks like your fault.\u201d Without thinking about the repercussions of cursing in front of my dad, I said, \u201cHow the fuck would you know?! You didn\u2019t even see it!\u201d My dad put his hand on my chest and looked me in the eyes, basically telling me to step back and calm down. Then he stepped toward the cops and yelled, \u201cHow the fuck would you know!? You didn\u2019t even see the wreck!\u201d Another officer stepped in between my dad and the cop. I cried when I got home, but he assured me that I wasn\u2019t in trouble and he wasn\u2019t mad. Instead, he told me that he shouldn\u2019t have put me in that situation and apologized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Then he stepped toward the cops and yelled, \u201cHow the fuck would you know!? You didn\u2019t even see the wreck!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    The Original Mack both understood and believed in me.<\/strong> When I came in late on a school night smelling like weed, I immediately said to my dad, \u201cI wasn\u2019t smoking!\u201d because I knew he could smell it. He just turned, walked away smiling, and said, \u201cI know YOU wasn\u2019t smoking weed\u201d\u2014emphasis on YOU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    When I intentionally left my school badge at home because I didn\u2019t feel like going to school, I walked all the way home just to find out that my parents were gone\u2026 so I tried to kick in the back door. When my parents got home and my dad looked at the dent in the door, he cursed me out from the back door to my room. Now, feeling even worse than I was before, he opened my door and said, \u201cI apologize, I was wrong. It\u2019s hot outside. If I were you, I would\u2019ve done the same thing.\u201d That changed my whole day around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    When the Vice Principal said that I was in a gang and that I was skipping classes, I called my dad to come up to the school with me. My dad went in on him immediately. He asked Mr. Neal, \u201cI have on a Cowboys shirt, my favorite color is blue\u2014does that mean that I\u2019m in a gang?\u201d Boom! He couldn\u2019t prove the gang claim, so he moved on to the skipped classes. With Mr. Neal sitting across looking at me, my dad leaned over and asked, \u201cSon, did you skip class?\u201d I said, \u201cNope.\u201d So Mr. Neal said, \u201cHow about we go ask Mr. Pettejean?\u201d The three of us walked to the back of the school to get Mr. Pettejean out of class. Mr. Neal asked him in front of my dad, \u201cI see Mack was not marked present on this day.\u201d Mr. Pettejean said, \u201cOh no, he was here. He\u2019s always in class. Sometimes he sleeps in class, but he\u2019s always here.\u201d Case closed\u2026 Not Guilty! Mr. Neal walked away without saying a word. My dad and I looked at each other and smiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    \u201cI just want to see you graduate. After that, I\u2019m good. I\u2019m going to buy a motorcycle, and me and your mom are going to travel.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    The Original Mack was the bravest and most confident man I\u2019ve ever met.<\/strong> He left me with all of the tools that I\u2019ll ever need in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1997\/98, I was a senior in high school. One day he and I were watching Ricki Lake, and he said, \u201cI just want to see you graduate. After that, I\u2019m good. I\u2019m going to buy a motorcycle, and me and your mom are going to travel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Shortly after that conversation, he wanted me to take him around the corner for some cigarettes. I thought he had stopped smoking. He told me that he didn\u2019t have a lot of time left and that he wanted me to do some things after he was gone. I heard him, but I wasn\u2019t listening. My dad was so tough that I literally thought he\u2019d die when he was ready. He passed away less than a week after that talk. February 28, 1998.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    My dad was a Vietnam Vet and a Marine. He didn\u2019t have to go to Vietnam\u2014he had two big brothers already over there, J.L. Hall and Don Lee Hall. He said he went just to get away from his dad. He enlisted at 18\/19 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    He met my mom while they were young; they grew up together. When he told my mom that he was leaving, she cried. My mom said she didn\u2019t think he was coming back because of everything that she\u2019d heard about the war. My dad said \u201cyour mom told me bye, I said no, bye is for dead folks, I\u2019ll see you later, because I\u2019m coming back\u201d\u2026and he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    My dad was cool, ill-tempered, funny, intelligent, uncensored, protective, fly, witty, clever, stubborn, complicated, guarded, honest, a leader, a teacher\u2026he was Original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Original Mack. 24 years before the movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Happy Born Day Pops! 8.16 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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