What do you remember your parents saying to you as a kid?

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The Annoyed Man wrote:
mikeintexas wrote:You'll put your eye out...
I'm surprised that wasn't in the OP. :mrgreen:
I'm tryin' to remember something else about something that will make you go blind...? Anybody else recall this parental admonition that I'm thinkin' of?
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Oldgringo wrote:
The Annoyed Man wrote:
mikeintexas wrote:You'll put your eye out...
I'm surprised that wasn't in the OP. :mrgreen:
I'm tryin' to remember something else about something that will make you go blind...? Anybody else recall this parental admonition that I'm thinkin' of?
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Eat everything on your plate there are children starving in 'insert country here'
were you raised in a barn,close the door.
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You covered most of them, but you missed:

"Do that again and I'll tan your hide!"
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Wht I heard most was...

get your head out of your (you know what)!

what in the .... were you thinking?
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blah, blah, blah....boy, i wish i had been listening!

when my kids were well into their teen years i apologized to my parents!
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Wait until you have kids of your own.
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"We are not stopping at Stuckeys"

"Dont make me say this twice...."

I guess its a generational thing. I remember my GrandMa using the "cut me a switch" on occasion.
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suthdj wrote:Wait until you have kids of your own.
that reminds me: "It'll all come back to you"
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Bring me my "fly back paddle" - didn't take long to figure out Mom didn't buy them to keep us boys entertained.

Come on Maybel, move it. - any time Dad got behind a female driver on a two lane not running at least 65-70.
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