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Topic: ''I'll give you something to cry about''

What sayings do you remember hearing from your parents?

When my brother and I would rough-house, it was "Don't come crying to me." I always did and she didn't seem to mind.

And "Be a good girl" as I left for school every day.

What do you remember?

She also told me to tell her when she's wrong. That she will tell me she's sorry and she did.

While out and about today I remembered another I just have to add:

"Don't worry about being kidnapped. The person will let you go in the morning when they get a good look at you."

From Momma:    Be careful.   (I didn't listen to that one, but I say it to Terry, the kids, grandkids, and anyone else I care about.)   

If you slam that screen door one more time, I'm going to get a switch.    Either stay IN or OUT!   That screen must have really slammed hard, because it sure bugged her.  :-P 

Never take candy from strangers.    WHY didn't she just tell me about child molestation in a way I could understand?    That didn't mean a thing to me.   

From Daddy:    Don't take any wooden nickles.   

Generic sayings from my parents:

Busier than a cranberry merchant at Christmas time.

Colder than a welldigger's a$$ in the Klondike's (a fav of my Dad's.)

Hotter than a pIssant in a pepper box.  

Like a flea on a hot tin skillet.

There are a TON more, but of course I can't think of any since I am trying to.

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I always heard, *busier than a one armed paper hanger* or *busier than a two peckered billy goat*. LOL. Dottie

LOL! I have heard the paper hanger one, but not the Billy Goat. I gotta go share that one w/ Terry. Gail

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Posted by: Rusty
Date posted: Wed Dec 31 7:57:52 2008
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I remember most of the sayings mentioned here. The one that got my attention the most was Wait until your father gets home.

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I think I would have rolled my eyes if my mother had ever said that. What was he going to do? He would have turned it back to her. (Charl)

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Posted by: Weezer
Date posted: Tue Dec 30 23:00:31 2008
Message:

 

The last thing that my fil used to day to my mil everynight before he went to work, "see you in the funny papers.." 

I thought that was just adorable.

If we would complain too much we would get, "oh go to your corner and eat green apples"

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That is cute... if we ever complained about what were having for dinner, my father would remind us that Pents was open. That was a local diner. (Charl)

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Posted by: Shirla
Date posted: Tue Dec 30 22:36:30 2008
Message:

The first thing I thought of when reading this was:

"Wait till your daddy gets home"

"If Cindy jumped off a bridge, would you do that too?"

"I dont' CARE what everyone else is doing!!"

and my favorite "BECAUSE I SAID SO!"

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I got all those, too! eom/Jenny

I got all of those, aside from the father threat. My mother was the disciplinarian. (Charl)

Me too - got all of them thrown at me. Dottie

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Posted by: Dottie
Date posted: Tue Dec 30 21:15:42 2008
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I remember *There are poor starving little kids in India that would love to eat that*.  Also,  *don't go out of the house with ripped underwear on*.  And, *Your face might freeze like that, so don't scowl*.

Dottie

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Oh I got the starving kids one too. /JoEllen

My starving kids were from China. My mom saying that to me and my learning about Lottie Moon (missionary to China) in Sunday School must have coincided, because it was a long time before I ever knew that anyone else's mother had ever said that! Naive kid, I was. I usually ate everything, so it was probably the second helping that I was about to waste that got her. eom/Jenny

My starving kids were in Europe. I always challenged my mother with my face staying that way! (Charl)

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Posted by: mags
Date posted: Tue Dec 30 20:55:10 2008
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I remember how shocked I was when one day I came home from school ... I can't remember how old I was .... maybe 12?

I came in singing ''Hail, Hail, the gang's all here!" and my Mom sang back ''What the he!! do we, care, What the he!! do we care!"

We both laughed but it was the first time I had heard that word from her mouth! 

And my Dad would always says ''Why don't you go out and play in the fast traffic?!"  (he was kidding of course)

I can't remember a lot of things said over and over but I do remember my Mom, my sister and me singing and harmonizing while we were riding in the car.  I still sing the same songs.

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My father would say the same thing, but didn't use 'fast'. In my small town there wasn't any. On a long car ride, I'd ask if we could sing 'that song' which was Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah'. What or who is Dinah? Dinah Shore? Just thought of that. (Charl)

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Posted by: JoEllen
Date posted: Tue Dec 30 20:40:05 2008
Message:

As a teenager I got the, "You'd complain if you were being hung with a new rope!"
To which I'd reply, "Exactly! I'd rather be hung with an old rope so it'd have a chance to break."

I often got the "Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about."

I know there were a lot of sayings though so I'll have to think about it.

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A lot more have come to me, too. I like the new rope one. That's new to me. (Charlotte)

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Posted by: boobies
Date posted: Tue Dec 30 20:29:23 2008
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"It's Adult time" when they had parties.  That meant we had to go to our rooms and shut up.

I'm trying not to say the stuff they said,my mom actually called my brother "hey stupid" :-(

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Wow. How did your brother survive that one? (Charl)

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Posted by: Bunk
Date posted: Tue Dec 30 19:58:35 2008
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When me, my brother and my sisters used to whine "it's not FAIR!", my dad would say, "Life is not fair", or "Life is full of injustice. Get used to it."

I also remember him saying, "Don't talk to your mother that way."

Mom would always say, "take your shoes off!" as we came through the door. No mud room, just a lot of light colored linoleum that she seems to have always "just mopped". LOL

But most importantly, I remember them both saying "I love you" to us every day.

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Yes. Don't talk to your mother... I got that too. It was okay for them to raise their voices to us, but not okay for us to them. I never figured that out. (Charl)

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Posted by: Doopy
Date posted: Tue Dec 30 19:53:03 2008
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As we left for school... "Have a good day... Learn a lot... Watch for cars.... BYEEEE!!"

Playing inside, driving her crazy... "Why don't you go outside and blow the stink off!"

And the famous "YOOOO HOOOOOOO!!" I lived in a tiny town. It was 11 blocks long and about 8 wide. We lived on 10th Ave, but when Mom wanted us home, she coud YOO HOO out the door, and be heard all the way to the other end of town. If we didn't happen to hear it, we could count on our friends to tell us she yelled.

 

Fun topic, Charl.

 

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OMG! there is a school aide at our school, yells YOOO HOOO and 450 kids stop dead in their tracks. boobies

That YooHoo is cool. My mother used to ring a brass bell. It was the same, if we didn't hear it the other kids would. (Charl)

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