Life was difficult growing up as a little boy in the Goodland family and I appeared, from both camps, to represent some entirely legitimate target or reason for either my mother or my father to dissipate their frustration, usually violently via my father or psychologically via my mother.
Yes, I chose that particular language because, just like any text or prose I’m contemplating while in writing mode, I like to use an appropriate, meaningful word when required and, rarely, use a lazy generic word or term just for expediency.