The urge to do more

"Hey pop!"
"Yes my boy?"
"I wonder why the old letch never does more than grope women and steal
their underwear?"

Soun Tendou rushed into the room. "Saotome! Don't you dare tell him
that! Imagine what he would do to us. The master knows we are the only
ones who know."

Ranma looked between his father and his father-in-law-to-be. "This gets
more interesting by the second."

Nabiki stepped into the room. "Come one daddy, this does sound
interesting. Besides, if it were embarrassing, we would have some
leverage to keep him away from the house for a while... "
"Or give him an excuse to blow it to smithereens. No way... "

Genma turned his back on his friend. "It all happened when... "
Soun slapped his hand over Genma's mouth. "Have you lost your mind, old
friend?"
Ranma's father pushed his friend's hand away and said, "Maybe I'm tired
of living in continual fear of that perverted old man. Has it occurred
to you that he has more respect for my son than the two of us combined
because Ranma fights back?"
"But... my house... "
"Stop blubbering."

"Does that mean you intend to pay for the repairs Mr. Saotome?" Nabiki
asked sweetly.
A drop of sweat rolled down his fat head, then he replied, "I guess you
don't want to know too badly then. Very well."

Ranma moved to follow. "I want to know."
"Sorry son, Nabiki has spoken."

Nabiki was floored. The ultimate wimp, Genma, just took her own words
and stuffed them up her nose. 'Better find out what he's been putting in
his wheaties.'

She's turned around to ask more... but Ranma and Genma have already left
the premises. "Damn!" she said out loud, "never a Saotome around when
you need one."

------------------------------------------------------------------------

After chasing his father for several blocks, Genma come to a stop and
jumped up into a tree. Ranma followed, of course.

"You want to know, don't you son?"
"Of course I do... but aren't you afraid of what the old letch might do
to you?"
"A little... but if I'm ever going to get any respect from him, I'm
going to have to fight dirty like he does."
"Is this another one of your lies then?" Ranma didn't look to pleased at
being led on a wild panda chase.
"Nope. This is real... which makes it all the more embarrassing." Genma
grinned demonically.

"What about Mr. Tendou's house?"
"I'm sure my good buddy will tell the master loud and clear that he had
nothing to do with it. Besides, if he destroys the place, he'll have
nowhere to stay and Kasumi won't be able to cook for him. Disturbing
Kasumi is never a good idea." Genma chuckled at something that only he
seems to understand.

"You see my boy, the reason the master never does more than touch is
because... he can't."
"Huh?" is the most intelligent thing Ranma could come up with in response.

Genma pointed down to his nether region. "Before he took us as
apprentices, the master was experimenting with those annoying
firecracker bombs of his when there was an� *Ahem* accident. The bomb
rolled off of the table and fell between his legs. Men tend to close
their legs when something falls there as opposed to spreading them like
women do. Unfortunately, the bomb detonated before he could remove it."

Ranma face was aghast. "OUCH!"

Genma grinned ruefully, "no kidding. He told us this in one of his
drunken stupors. The next day, when he realized what he had said, he
promised us eternal damnation if word of it ever got out."
"It sounds embarrassing, but it isn't all that bad," at the strange look
his father sent him, he asks, "is it?

"My boy, you have 4 different women after you. This is very ego boosting
and makes you look manly. Would you ever want word to get out that the
reason you have never chosen any of them is because you wouldn't be able
to do anything with them? I didn't think so."

"The master is carrying on his raiding charade to hide the fact that all
he can ever do is look, but never touch."

"So what do we do now?"
"Simple... " Said Ranma's father, "we get in our laugh, then we die."


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  / Here lies:\  Sometimes it happens.  People just explode.
|   Andrew    | Natural causes.
|             |                 -- Repo Man
|   I think   |
| he's hungry | Honk Louder! I don't have a firing solution yet!
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