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

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:08 pm
by The Annoyed Man
Don't MAKE me pull this car over!

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

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:21 pm
by hoot
If you're going to do something, do it right.

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

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:26 pm
by Oldgringo
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?

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

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:56 pm
by marksiwel
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?
Moonshine! :smilelol5:

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

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:58 pm
by davidtx
"If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his butt every time he jumped" - anytime we used the word "if"

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

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:03 pm
by suthdj
Eat everything on your plate there are children starving in 'insert country here'
were you raised in a barn,close the door.

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

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:16 pm
by OldSchool
You covered most of them, but you missed:

"Do that again and I'll tan your hide!"
"Never lie, steal or cheat -- the only thing you can ever call your own is your good name."

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

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:30 pm
by DONT TREAD ON ME
Wht I heard most was...

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

what in the .... were you thinking?

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

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:41 pm
by saj111
blah, blah, blah....boy, i wish i had been listening!

when my kids were well into their teen years i apologized to my parents!

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

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:51 pm
by suthdj
Wait until you have kids of your own.

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

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:02 pm
by Piney
"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.

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

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:09 pm
by davidtx
suthdj wrote:Wait until you have kids of your own.
that reminds me: "It'll all come back to you"

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

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:45 pm
by cbr600

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

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:55 pm
by Tregs
"Be man enough to lift the seat or woman enough to sit on it."

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

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 11:36 pm
by 5thGenTexan
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.