If you've ever been afraid of your girlfriend's dad, you were probably overreacting. Even if he's a huge, ominously quiet Army colonel who invites you duck hunting at 4 a.m. on Thanksgiving. Because unless you are dating Robert Salyer's stepdaughter, your girlfriend's dad has not cut off your lip with a samurai sword.
According to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, when the boyfriend refused, Salyer kicked in the door, and hi-ya!, cold Tamahagane steel flashed through the warm Coastal Bend night. To perdition went some of the lip that had been shattering the peace of Robert Salyer's nocturnal warrior meditations.
