My father was raised in a fatherless home at a time when the family of five struggled to survive, which caused my father to be extremely tightfisted(吝啬) with money.
When we children became 1 that other children got pocket money from their parents, we made a(n) 2 to ask our father from some. Immediately his face turned stone-cold, and he said, “If you’re old enough to ask, you’re old enough to 3 .” And we had to seek odd jobs about the neighbourhood.
