 If I ever get out of this place, I'm going to find... Oh, did you hit him with the swatter? Of course not. It's the noise that woke him up. This place isn't fit to keep a dog and much less children. A short time after that, I called my mother and asked her to send airline tickets. She and dad were then living in Maryland. After the tickets arrived, I moved out while Billy was at work and left a note telling him where I'd gone.