Life
has certainly changed over the decades and things that were said
reflected the times and often the attitudes. It was very different
back in the day...
- Be sure and refill the ice trays, we are going to have company later this afternoon
- Watch for the mailman, I want to get this letter in the mail today.
- Quit slamming that screen door! ( I missed this one so much I recently installed an old wooden screen door on the back door of the house and I slam it all the time,)
- Be sure to pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like it might rain -- and bring in the clothes off the line, too.
- Don't forget to wind the clock before you go to bed. (Don't you mean change the battery?)
- Wash your feet before you go to bed, (you've been playing barefooted outside all day). Now who still plays outside in their bare feet?
- Why can't you remember to roll up your pants legs? Getting them caught in the bicycle chain is tearing them up and I ain't made outta money.
- You have torn the knees out of that pair of pants so many times there ain't nothing left to put a patch on. No patch, no patch!!
- Don't you go outside with your school clothes on!
- Hang up your Sunday School clothes, you know you need to pass them down to your brother in good condition.
- Be sure and pour the cream off the top of the milk when you open the new bottle. I need it for baking and Pa's coffee.( I would bet there are many kids who have never seen cream at the top of a milk bottle, let alone a milk bottle made of glass.)
- Take that empty bottle to the store with you so you won't have to pay a deposit on another one. See, returnables is not a new concept.
- Put a dish towel over the cake so the flies won't get on it. (Someone still bakes?)
- Let me know when the Fuller Brush man comes by, I need to get a few things from him. ( No...... he is not your father...)
- You boys stay close by, the car may not start and I will need you to help push it to get it started.
- There is a dollar in my purse, go by the service station and get five gallons of gas for the lawn mower. ( $.25 a gallon wasn't that long ago.)
- You can walk to the store; it won't hurt you to get some exercise. Maybe you will learn to be more careful with your bicycle or the car.
- Don't sit so close to the TV. It will ruin your eyes.
- Be sure and fill the lamps this morning with lamp oil so we don't have to do that tonight in the dark.
- Here, take this old magazine to the outhouse when you go, we are almost out of paper out there. (OMG! I found a magazine in one of those ports-potties at the fair. You don't suppose it......??
- No! I don't have nine cents for you to go to the show, do you think money grows on trees?
- Oh! He's an honest politician. (?)
- Shut your damn mouth! I don't want to hear anymore words like that. I will wash your mouth out with soap!
- Stop crossing your eyes! They will get stuck that way!
- When you take your driving test don't forget your hand signals each turn. Left arm straight out the window for a left turn, and left arm bent up to the sky at the elbow for a right turn and straight down to the side of the door when you are going to slow down or stop. ( and put the cell phone down!)
- It is "Yes, sir!" and "No, sir" to me and your elders young man, and don't you forget it.
- I'm sorry!
- And maybe my all time favorite.. if I hear you repeat one word of this to anyone I will ground you for the rest of your life. Do you understand me?!!
- Life was so much simpler then........;)Please feel free to add your own to the list in the comment box below.
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