Mom's favorite sayings

[sourland]

"Whispers are lies, no manners besides." Use of the word "hey" to get her attention garnered this response" "Hay is for horses not people." "Sleep tight don't let the bedbugs bite." That brought back the memories.

 

[RoeDylanda]

"Hay is for horses" I got that all the time too!

Also my dad, who hated it when we'd say "like" as a placeholder word or the wrong word ("So he was like, 'really?' And I was like, furious") would constantly interrupt, "But not really?"

It drove me insane as a teenager, but I did drop the habit.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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We actually locked our youngest brother in a dog kennel. My mom always babied him, and he was LAZY...one day we're unloading a trailer and John is messing around per usual, and my brother and I had the EXACT SAME IDEA at the same time. We stuffed him in there, locked it, and gave him two sticks and a piece of net, threw the keys just out of reach... An hour later, he had those two sticks and net made into a net to get the keys...so we had a show while we were working. It sounds mean, but I honestly think he preferred it to working.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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You are NOT kidding. My 1 year old already has my temper, and I'm struggling to correct it. Just the other day I took something from her and told her "NO" while wagging my finger. She wagged hers right back and yelled the meanest sounding baby jibberish I've ever heard....


Another of my mom's: "If you kids don't be good I'm going to sell you to the Gypsies!" Hence why Gypsies still creep me out to this day.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Oops, guess I should read the whole thread first

 

[noodleroo]

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You are NOT kidding. My 1 year old already has my temper, and I'm struggling to correct it. Just the other day I took something from her and told her "NO" while wagging my finger. She wagged hers right back and yelled the meanest sounding baby jibberish I've ever heard....


Another of my mom's: "If you kids don't be good I'm going to sell you to the Gypsies!" Hence why Gypsies still creep me out to this day.

That's really cute; but just wait... My mother told me "I hope you have a child just like you some day". I didn't. I had one just like Mother......really...

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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You are NOT kidding. My 1 year old already has my temper, and I'm struggling to correct it. Just the other day I took something from her and told her "NO" while wagging my finger. She wagged hers right back and yelled the meanest sounding baby jibberish I've ever heard....


Another of my mom's: "If you kids don't be good I'm going to sell you to the Gypsies!" Hence why Gypsies still creep me out to this day.

That's really cute; but just wait... My mother told me "I hope you have a child just like you some day". I didn't. I had one just like Mother......really...

Oh yeah, it's cute now...but in another year or two I'm not going to find it amusing.


I find that my daughter looks just exactly like my mom did as a kid. But then, I look/act a lot like my mother...so....

 

[PineappleMama]

I suppose.

That's one Mom used to say when asked a question (and answer was yes) and I do that too.

KNEW I could think of a positive one if I put my mind to it.

 

[Tala]

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My dad said that every time I complained that high heels were uncomfortable.
He would tell a tale of how his sisters used to put their jeans on still-damp so that they could get into them they were so tight. And his sisters are to this day (in their 40's) still quite thin, so they musta been some TIGHT jeans!!!!!!!!!
I always thought it was pretty awful that society expects people to do stuff like that to "be beautiful." I mean, compared to things some people do to themselves in attempt to measure up to some unknown standard of beauty, wearing heels and too-tight jeans are pretty mild.

 

[farmerlor]

My mother used to tell us that she was going to rip our arms out and beat us with the bloody stumps.....okay, maybe that wasn't a good one.