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,)
• 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.
• 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. 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. (?)
• Hush your 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........;)
