What are some of the things your parents said that would drive you nuts?
For example, I mentioned this in another thread, if I couldn't find something and asked my mom for help, she would always say, "Well, have you looked?"
She also liked to say, "Because I'm the Mom, that's why!"
For the sake of the thread, I'll carry this over from the movie thread.
Hartz, well if your not the pot calling the kettle black. I recall someone saying she was "going to pull the car over if we didn't stop it" not too long ago!!
As for my mom - she would say things like...
don't play on that internet it will rot your brain!! (no just kidding)
Mine wasn't a phrase, it was a sound. When my dad was dissapointed he would unconsciously make the "Tsk, tsk, tsk!" sound. When I heard that, I knew I had dropped the ball. Hated it!
What the hell were you thinking. And before I could answer mom would say. You weren't thinking were you? Then I'd shrug my shoulders. Then she would say Get out of my sight. Those were the days. I may have been in trouble but I didn't have a mortgage payment.
That reminds me of one of my dad's classic's "you're pushing the envelope"
I guess it's an airplane term. As chidren it just made us laugh. We were like what the heck is the envelope? I just envisioned a paper envelope and I didn't think pushing it was so bad.
Anyone have parents who counted to 3? Or even better, "Don't make me start counting!"
And, have you ever found yourself using these lines? My sister is so much younger than me, so she's more like my daughter than my sister, and I've threatened to count to 3 before...
Yeah, as a parent I've definitely created my own. My two best are, "Want to get into a stubborn contest with me? I've been at it longer, I'll win!" and, "Anbody want to see Dad lose his temper? Didn't think so!"
My mom and dad were by nature, good cop and bad cop. My mom's precinct was alot wasier to deal with, but if she ever called in the grizzled detective, look out. He made Andy Sipowicz from NYPD Blue look like Pee Wee Herman. I usually managed to stay out of dad's precinct.
I'm not even in the same arena with you that I am with my kids, Star. I'm not ultimately responsible for you growing up into a responsible adult. Can I use you as an example of why they should listen to me?
I was lucky. I never got spanked as a child- at least not from dad. A little F.O.D. is good- Fear Of Dad. If my brother and/ or I were messing up, eg fooling around at church, all it took to straighten us out was "the look". If we pressed dad so far to the point to give us "the look" we knew to straighten out IMMEDIATELY! He was pretty much a hard working but easy going guy, so we knew if we got "the look" we must be messing up BIG TIME, even if we didn't recognize our actions as such. That's all it took.
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