I remember people like Tony the Lip in Green Book Growing up

Most of them I knew didn't have east Coast accents. Most of them had California, Oregon or Washington Accents. If you get near to the Canadian Border they begin to have somewhat Canadian accents by the way because a lot of people visit Canada from places like Seattle, Washington and vice versa. My father could sometimes be like this if he had to be also. He was the last person in the family that had to shoot at someone in his life outside of war here in the U.S.

The last time this happened a couple of drunk guys came onto his property in the desert and he was likely 65 to 70. My style likely would have been just to talk the guys down when they were confused but his style from the 20s to 40s was to get his gun and to shoot over their heads (which was how things often were done back then.) This happened between 1980 and 1985 by the way.

The two young drunk men that came onto his property backed their vehicle up so fast they got caught in my father's wire fencing around his barrel cactuses in the desert. When he called the sheriff on these two guys the sheriff found them drunk 10 miles away trying to get the wire out from under their car.

But, this was how my father and grandfather handled things in the 20th century from 1900 on I guess. There is this sort of a Cowboy way about both of them that was a carry over from the 1800s from About Colorado and Texas west.

I think what happened was the two drunk men thought they were at a different house and land than they were and wanted their girlfriend that lived there and were upset when my father didn't produce her. He realized they were just too out of it and then shot over their heads because there just was no talking to them.

I was 14 in 1962 when the true story of "Green Book" actually happened. So, West Coast people with a different accent but who acted like Tony the Lip thought exactly like he did. Not everyone had a good education then and often people couldn't read or write or be as sophisticated as people tend to be now. Tony the Lip was an "EVERYMAN" in blue Collar land in the U.S. So, I met thousands of people with exactly his attitude and if you weren't respectful you expected to get knocked down no matter what age you were whether you were a boy or a man. Women were treated very differently then than boys or men. Boys or men were always "expendable" and could disappear easily then without a trace. So, if you weren't respectful around guys like this you might just disappear and no one would ever find you.