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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 17, 2014 19:07:33 GMT -5
Mom: 'Don't look at me in that tone of voice.'
Huh?
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jun 17, 2014 19:26:47 GMT -5
"You've got nothing to do?? I can fix that" - usually followed by multiple chores for my 3 older bro's and me.
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 17, 2014 19:36:34 GMT -5
My father always said only savages got their ears pierced. A couple of years ago, I was trying to excavate their dining room table. I found a jewelry box and didn't recognize any of the contents, which included pierced earrings. My mother said it wasn't her jewelry, so I asked my father if it might have been his mother's. "No, because she wasn't a savage." "If God wanted holes in your ears, he'd have put them there!" is what I was always told. OMG, DF says this!
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 17, 2014 23:42:50 GMT -5
Two wrongs, don't make a/it right.
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Post by msventoux on Jun 18, 2014 0:07:25 GMT -5
"When they were passing out brains, you thought they said trains and skipped getting in line."
"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."
"Either stop crying or go out and cut a switch down and I'll give you something to cry about."
All from my grandmother. A cool lady, but not exactly a warm, nurturing grandmother.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jun 18, 2014 0:13:23 GMT -5
The way I remember that one is:
"When they were passing out brains, you thought they said trains - and decided to walk instead."
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 18, 2014 11:53:38 GMT -5
Mom: 'Don't look at me in that tone of voice.' Huh? My kids look at me in that tone of voice all the time. I generally just tell them to shut up.
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Post by lexxy703 on Jun 18, 2014 11:59:40 GMT -5
Me: I'm hungry Mom: Eat an apple Me: I don't want an apple Mom: Then I guess your not really hungry
"Those that won't listen must feel" - from Dad
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 18, 2014 13:33:48 GMT -5
Mom: 'Don't look at me in that tone of voice.' Huh? My kids look at me in that tone of voice all the time. I generally just tell them to shut up. You must live or come from North Dakota. That's where my mother was from and picked up that nonsensical expression.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 18, 2014 13:52:43 GMT -5
My kids look at me in that tone of voice all the time. I generally just tell them to shut up. You must live or come from North Dakota. That's where my mother was from and picked up that nonsensical expression. Good Lord, no! Way too cold for me! I'm way south of that.
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Post by NastyWoman on Jun 18, 2014 20:06:42 GMT -5
If you keep that up, I'll stick you behind the wallpaper and rub until I don't see bubbles anymore." Joss not getting the parent of the year award; DS1 and DS2 still remember me threatening them with this a quarter of a century later
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 18, 2014 20:12:41 GMT -5
If you keep that up, I'll stick you behind the wallpaper and rub until I don't see bubbles anymore." Joss not getting the parent of the year award; DS1 and DS2 still remember me threatening them with this a quarter of a century later Oooooooo. I like that. It's good at any age.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jun 18, 2014 20:45:28 GMT -5
Often said in my house growing up whenever my 3 brothers would start scrapping:
"If you boys don't knock it off NOW, the three of you are going downstairs to duke it out until only one of you comes up alive - and when he does, there will be no dinner or TV for a year."
<Most times immediately followed by instant silence>
An hour or two later they were best buds again.
(Mom was also very adept at opening the kitchen drawer that held the cooking utensils to rattle them around hunting for the wooden spoon. That usually brought an end to any bickering too.)
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Post by Apple on Jun 18, 2014 23:10:51 GMT -5
Not from my parents, but from my BIL's dad... (when one of the kids wanted something dad thought was worthless)-- "I wouldn't shove that up my ass if I had room for a freight train".
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Post by Apple on Jun 18, 2014 23:12:03 GMT -5
3. Is it green, purple, about to fall off? No - then you're fine - you'll live. I used to tell my son that unless he was bleeding or dying, not to bother me with it.
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Post by Apple on Jun 18, 2014 23:14:18 GMT -5
3 out of the 4 brothers had "R" names. Step dad would start yelling and going through all the names because he'd get so mad he would say the wrong name until finally just saying: All you sons of bitches! My dad would go through most of the sibling's, and the DOG's name before he could remember/get to the name he wanted. (he was really bad with our names, we sat for half an hour at my kindergarten registration because he couldn't remember my name, and he wasn't going to call my mom and ask her!)
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jun 19, 2014 1:03:39 GMT -5
I think that's a trait most parents inherit as soon as their first is born.
My parents used to rattle through the list of kids' names when one of us needed to be scolded til they zeroed in on the one of us they were pissed at.
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Post by Bonny on Jun 19, 2014 10:08:46 GMT -5
"Do you want to walk home?" (Seriously, once Dad kicked my older brother out of the car when we were less than a mile home, & let him walk the rest of the way. ) Well thank God it wasn't in Kauai or he would have been arrested!
Once my Dad got so pissed off at us when we were on a family vacation he did pull over, made us get out of the car and drove off. We were pretty young, probably 7 and 8. I think he circled back and picked us up about 5 minutes later. We were good for probably an hour.
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 19, 2014 10:14:14 GMT -5
APPLE, I love your avatar.
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Post by justme on Jun 19, 2014 10:15:35 GMT -5
3. Is it green, purple, about to fall off? No - then you're fine - you'll live. I used to tell my son that unless he was bleeding or dying, not to bother me with it. That was my parents rule if we were interrupting them when they had gone in and closed the door to their bedroom. We'd knock and they'd ask "are you bleeding" if we said no we were told to wait.
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Post by justme on Jun 19, 2014 10:16:56 GMT -5
Also, I still laugh at how I'm the youngest (and was living in some form at home for almost 8 years longer than my bro) and yet my brother and dad's name get yelled before mine when she's mad at me. By the time she finally spits my name out I'm laughing so hard that she usually does too.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 19, 2014 11:32:12 GMT -5
3 out of the 4 brothers had "R" names. Step dad would start yelling and going through all the names because he'd get so mad he would say the wrong name until finally just saying: All you sons of bitches! My dad would go through most of the sibling's, and the DOG's name before he could remember/get to the name he wanted. (he was really bad with our names, we sat for half an hour at my kindergarten registration because he couldn't remember my name, and he wasn't going to call my mom and ask her!) My mom's aunt would go through quite a list of names (her sister had 7 or 8 kids so there were lots of cousins and their kids to recall) and eventually end with Rutabega.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 19, 2014 12:45:18 GMT -5
Sometimes my dad would get so mad he'd yell "Girl child!" or "Boy child!" because he forgot our names. It was REALLY funny when he'd be mad enough at my brother he'd yell "Girl child!". When I pointed out he was the boy child my dad would come back with "He knows who he is and needs to get his ass over here!" I've found myself getting flustered enough that I call Gwen by the dog's names and eventually end up saying "Whoever the hell you are get your ass over here!"
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 19, 2014 12:51:02 GMT -5
"run it under cold water" was my Mom's response to any wound/owie we had as kids. Later on I picked up "no blood, no bandaid. or No blood, no sympathy." but I don't remember where.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 12:55:57 GMT -5
I haven't read the whole thread so if this is a repeat forgive me........
"We can't afford to heat the great outdoors!" (My brother's and I never shut doors.)
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Post by Bonny on Jun 20, 2014 9:35:26 GMT -5
I remembered another one, generally directed at my brother;
Don't you dare get your dirty blood on my clean floor!
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Post by weltschmerz on Jun 22, 2014 18:28:59 GMT -5
'It's in the bible, that's why!!!'
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 23, 2014 2:39:50 GMT -5
"You don't have to like it, you just have to do it -or- but you have to do it anyway."
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