UPDATE:
In response to comments made on this post, some of my readers (I've picked up some new ones!) missed this post I did in August, 2007. It is one of my favorites for it depicts the old phrase, "what goes around comes around." But more than that, it's a grand daughter story!! I hope you find it worth the reading....
http://backhometostay.blogspot.com/2007/08/what-goes-around-comes-around.html#links
THINGS YOU NEVER (OR RARELY) HEAR ANYMORE:
Be sure to refill the ice trays, we're going to have company after while.
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Watch for the postman, I want to get this letter to Aunt Mary in the mail today.
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Quit slamming the screen door when you are on your way out!
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Be sure and pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like a shower is coming up.
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Don't forget to wind the clock before you go to bed.
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Wash your feet before you go to bed, they are nasty from playing outside all day barefooted.
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Why can't you remember to roll up your pant legs? Getting them caught in the bicycle chain so many times is tearing them up.
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You have torn the knees out of that pair of pants so many times there is nothing left to put a patch on.
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Don't you go outside with your good school clothes on!
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Go comb your hair; it looks like the rats have nested in it all night.
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Be sure and pour the cream off the top of the milk when you open the new bottle.
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Take that empty bottle to the store with you so you won't have to pay a deposit on another one.
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Put a dish towel over the cake so the flies won't get on it.
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Quit jumping on the floor! I have a cake in the oven and you are going to make it fall if you don't quit!
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Let me know when the Fuller Brush man comes by, I need to get a few things from him.
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You boys stay close by, the car may not start and I will need you to help push it off.
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There's a dollar in my purse, get 5 gallons of gas when you go to town.
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Open the back door and see if we can get a breeze through here, it is getting hot.
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You can walk to the store; it won't hurt you to get some exercise.
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Don't sit too close to the TV. It is hard on your eyes.
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If you pull that stunt again, I am going to wear you out!
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Don't lose that button; I'll sew it back on after awhile.
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Wash under your neck before you come to the table, you have beads of dirt and sweat all under there.
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Get out from under the sewing machine; pumping it messes up the thread!
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Be sure and fill the lamps this morning so we don't have to do that tonight in the dark.
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Here, take this old magazine to the toilet with you when you go, we are almost out of paper out there.
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Go out to the well and draw a bucket of water so I can wash dishes.
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Don't turn the radio on now, I want the battery to be up when the Grand Ole Opry comes on.
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No! I don't have nine cents for you to go to the show. Do you think money grows on trees?
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Eat those vegetables, they'll make you big and strong like your daddy.
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That dog is NOT coming in this house! I don't care how cold it is out there, dogs just don't come in the house.
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Sit still! I'm trying to get your hair cut straight and you keep moving and it is all botched up.
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Hush your mouth! I don't want to hear words like that! I'll wash your mouth out with soap!
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It is time for your system to be cleaned out. I am going to give you a dose of castor oil tonight.
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If you get a spanking in school and I find out about it, you'll get another one when you get home.
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Quit crossing your eyes! They will get stuck that way!
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Soak your foot in this pan of coal oil so that bad cut won't get infected.
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When you take your driving test, don't forget to signal each turn. Left arm straight out the window for a left turn; left arm bent up at the elbow for a right turn; and straight down to the side of the door when you are going to stop.
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It is: "Yes Ma'am!" and "No Ma'am!" to me, young man, and don't you forget it!
How many other things can you remember from your youth that you don't hear now?
13 comments:
Jackie I'm spoiled for I like most of the modern conveniences, though I still linger for those years of innocence.
Son if You do that again You'll be eating standing up for a week.
Had one more that might be offensive in this day of immorality
Inspired
Good listing and here is one I do remember from my mom - don't talk while eating! Have a nice Texas day.
cfs
Well, we had fuel oil for the central heat, and we didn't lidten to Grand Ol' Opry - was reared outside Philly - but most of those I do remember. 'Course we didn't play in bare feet much. Our streets were asphalt and tar. Mighty hot in the summer, and lots of bits of glass.
Nice memories, In_spired. Wish most of them still applied.
Oh, My God,,,,,,Some of these sound Southern and most are common.
You forgot the BB gun...Dont point that thing at me, if it goes off it could put my eye out. then you have the No suh,,,Yes suh,,,"Don't cha know" "Don't pee on the side of the road, you'll pee the bed."" Eat your potatoes,,people are starving in China"........That's it...... Got to go....dinner time.....stay well
Oh my gosh...did you grow up with me?
Money doesn't grow on trees!
You weren't born in a barn. Shut that door!
This is going to hurt me more than it will hurt you (didn't get that one until I had children of my own).
You gave me a smile, and I thank you for it- Ma'am! :)
Don't go near the water until you learn to swim.
Put on clean underwear, you may be in a wreck. On this one I replied if that happened they would be soiled anyway.
Chikenherder
I love it!
I had never heard of the cake falling in the oven from jumping around. :)
I try to hold on to buttons to sew that.
I also got a kick out of the "if you get a spanking at school one." :)
And thank goodness we don't have to open the door for a breeze. I'd die without central air.
There was one about going blind,
crabby: We're ALL spoiled but it's fun to spend some time in remembrance.
cfs: Oh my! I've heard that one often!
benning: Great remembrances! The street where I grew up was DIRT! and, yes, us kids went bare-footed a lot!
tapline: Oh yes....the starving in China one was quite common around my house...
janie: I guess times haven't changed as much as it seems between your generation and mine!
christy: Girl...have I heard THAT one many times!! Money don't grow on trees....
buff: Thank you, sir!
chikenherder: I never did get to go anyplace so I didn't hear this one! (lol)
terry: ME TOO! (glad we don't have to open doors and windows to catch a breeze!) Yes, I'm spoiled.
crabby: don't ask...don't tell!
Oh my heck..
I've heard so many of those...
hee hee..
That dog is NOT coming in this house! I don't care how cold it is out there, dogs just don't come in the house.
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