An unintentional response to a non challenge...

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I guess I'll give credit where credit is due. This wasn't intended as a challenge, atleast as far as I am aware. I just saw a post from @Daljinder who cites seeing this question from @JaboUK. The question is "Was your father around much when you were little?" I've talked a little bit about this in the past. I may have talked about it in more detail back years ago (2009 era) on Mylot Lite (or er the original that is). My father and mother were never married. I thought they were for years, but found out around ten or eleven years of age that they were not married and never had been. I remember my father being around somewhat when I was real little, but then around the 10 or 11 year mark he was out later, coming home at 7 or 8. I didn't mind it much as I was afraid of him really. He had (and still does) an intimidating look to him. Tall and muscular, always wearing tank tops and shorts. He works construction. He worked construction back then too, and I didn't understand why he was always out later. He was a mean one though. Without explaining why, I will say that I moved out of my parents home when I was around 14 years of age. I moved in with my grandparents whom I spent much of the summer with anyhow. You know some of my experiences with his (my father's) side of the family, and that I am not close with them and don't intend to ever be again. The only thing that I wish could change was the knowledge I have of my family history on that side. There was not much talk done about it, nothing really offered up about my own grandfather who died before I was born, or any of the other relatives before him. I was told that my grandfather was a mean one, who beat my father, and that was that. On my mom's side of things? We were told story after story about great aunts and uncles, about their lives growing up. I suppose you come to expect that from your grandparents though.