Things Your Parents Said
August 11th, 2018 at 1:42:47 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | My parents and everybody talked in old sayings and cliche's when I was a kid. 'Better straighten up and fly right.' My dad called us 'stump heads' when he was angry. My mom's fave: "You kids will drive me to Kalamazoo!" There was a world famous insane asylum there. 'Turn out the light, we aren't made of money.' 'Clean your plate, kids are starving in China.' 'Your bedroom is a pigsty.' We heard this stuff every day. What do parents say now, I have no idea. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 11th, 2018 at 1:54:21 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 |
I have no idea but it falls on ears that are just as deaf. Only now I think the kids know how much it costs to run an electric light bulb particularly an LED one. |
August 11th, 2018 at 2:05:11 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
My parents grew up in the 30's when utility bills were no joke. In Detroit the average electric bill was $4 a month, but the wages of a factory worker were $23 a week in 1933. The electric was 5% of your monthly wages. Today it's a fraction of 1% of earnings. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 11th, 2018 at 2:09:12 PM permalink | |
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4942 |
They still aren't a joke to me. My electric bill was $603 this month. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
August 11th, 2018 at 2:35:02 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Mine was $110. I don't live on the surface of the sun. There were 2 days last week when I didn't even turn the air on. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 11th, 2018 at 3:10:32 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | My father was a man of few words. He didn't say the usual cliches because he didn't say much at all besides swearing. I do recall him quoting the price of our house whenever I or one of my brothers did anything to damage it. The price he quoted was $30,000. You can't conceive of numbers that big as a kid, but today the same home is worth close to a million. I've compared him before to Jack Rebney, known as the angriest RV salesman. My mother mentioned how the starving kids in Ethiopia would be grateful to have whatever food I didn't care to eat. I always wanted to say, "I'd be happy to give to them," but she would have smacked me. She called me and my middle brother a brat hundreds of times. Usually preceded by the adjective "spoiled." She was a tough woman. Direct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDQQfBrSUs0 Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
August 11th, 2018 at 3:16:44 PM permalink | |
JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 971 | Whenever he thought I wasn't doing enough to help out, he would say, "don't just stand there with your teeth in your mouth." Never made sense to me. The mind hungers for that on which it feeds. |
August 11th, 2018 at 4:09:15 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
My aunt had 6 kids and one bathroom. Every time I was there she would yell at the bathroom, which was off the kitchen, "Piss or get off the pot! People are waiting!" I was in HS before I knew what the pot was. Growing up they still used chamber pots. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 11th, 2018 at 4:16:41 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
My dad was very money conscious. Better not waste something, woe unto you. My mom wanted a dish washer, nope said my dad, he's not paying for the water and electric to run it. He drilled it into my head that you get a job after HS and pay him rent. I was taking home $65 a week and he took all but $20 of it. It was 1967, $20 went a long way for gas and beer and McD's. A case of Bud was $5. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 11th, 2018 at 4:30:13 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18631 |
You running a grow house? You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |