Friday, July 09, 2010

The good ole days

THINGS YOU DON'T HEAR ANYMORE.


Be sure to refill the ice trays, we're going to have company.

Watch for the postman, I want to get this letter to Willie in the mail today.

Quit slamming the screen door when you go out!

Be sure and pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like a shower is coming up.

Don't forget to wind the clock before you go to bed.

Wash your feet before you go to bed, you've been playing outside all day barefooted.

Why can't you remember to roll up your britches legs?..... Getting them caught in the bicycle chain so many times is tearing them up.

You have torn the knees out of that pair of pants so many times there is nothing left to put a patch on.

Don't you go outside with your school clothes on!

Go comb your hair; it looks like the rats have nested in it all night.

Be sure and pour the cream off the top of the milk when you open the new bottle.

Take that empty bottle to the store with you so you won't have to pay a deposit on another one.

Put a dish towel over the cake so the flies won't get on it.

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!

Let me know when the Fuller Brush man comes by, I need to get a few things from him.

You boys stay close by, the car may not start and I will need you to help push it off.

There's a dollar in my purse, get 5 gallons of gas when you go to town.

Open the back door and see if we can get a breeze through here, it's getting hot in here.

You can walk to the store; it won't hurt you to get some exercise.

Don't sit too close to the TV. It's hard on your eyes.

If you pull that stunt again, I am going to wear you out!

Don't lose that button; I'll sew it back on after awhile.

Wash under your neck before you come to the table, you have beads
of dirt and sweat all under there.

Get out from under the sewing machine; pumping it messes up the thread!

Be sure and fill the lamps this morning so we don't have to do that tonight in the dark.

Here, take this old magazine to the toilet with you when you go, we're almost out of paper out there.

Go out to the well and draw a bucket of water so I can wash the dishes.

Don't turn the radio on now, I want the battery to be up when the Grand Ole Opry comes on.

No! I don't have 10 cents for you to go to the show. Do you think money grows on trees?

Eat those turnips, they'll make you big and strong like your daddy.

That dog is NOT coming in this house! I don't care how cold it is out there, dogs don't stay in the house.

Sit still! I'm trying to get your hair cut straight and you keep moving and it is all messed up.

Hush your mouth! I don't want to hear words like that! I'll wash your mouth out with soap!

It's time for your system to be cleaned out. I'm going to give you a dose of castor oil tonight.

If you get a spanking in school and I find out about it, you'll get another one when you get home.

Quit crossing your eyes or they'll get stuck that way!

Soak your foot in this pan of kerosene so that bad cut won't get infected.

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.

It's 'Yes Ma'am!' and 'No Ma'am!' to me, young man, and don't you forget it!

Memories, memories...for the over-the-hill bunch.
Can you believe it?....for everyone else.

6 comments:

Charles said...

I remember hearing most of them. I see you're getting rain too. I got to mow when we got home & it's rained most every day since.

Arkansas Patti said...

I have heard them all it seems and it is a shame some are gone.
Deposits on bottles was a great idea, Kept crap out of landfills.

Mental P Mama said...

Oh the memories....

Gill - That British Woman said...

The one about having a dollar in your purse for 5 gallons of gas was an eye opener.

I do remember that gas prices used to be under 40 cents per litre when we first came to Canada 21 years ago.

I also remember "fighting" to get the cream off the top of the bottle of milk for my cereal when I was a child, before my brothers got it!!

Gill in Canada

Twisted Fencepost said...

Some of them I still say. And a lot of them I have heard before, but a long time ago.

Wanda said...

You are right...we don't use those phrases much today, if ever.

I do remember my mom telling us not to run in the kitchen because the cake would fall.!