"You'll put your eye out with that thing" "Someday your face is going to freeze that way"

Question

Name some other quirky things your parents told you when you were young?

How about " Oh you wanna cry?Then I'll give you something to really cry about".
lol

Here's one last weird one" Telling lies will give you cankor sores".

Answer 1

Don't you dare open your mouth and say another thing - Now, what do you have to say for yourself?

If you swallow that seed a tree will grow inside you.

If you don't straighten up you're going to find yourself in the middle of next week!

Don't you look at me in that tone of voice!

Answer 2

"Wear your girdle and the nylon stockings, so all you do is talking!" I hated that girdle and the doo hickeys that held the Nylons on. I didn't understand at first what she meant by the expression. My foster Mother told me that when I was 13. She was 69 when I arrived at her house.
Don't stay on the phone so long or your ear will become glued to it!
Boys call you first or people will think the worst!

My very favorite to use on the children: "Oh, I hope you have a kid just like you, when you grow up!"
She used to laugh when I told her that. Now she tells everyone how I put a curse on her and she has 2 just like her.

Answer 3

Here let me fix you something to eat before your belly button will reach your backbone. Don't pee outside down by the brook the darning needles will come along and sew you up so you can't ever pee down there again. Don't give me that face you want it to freeze like that, get that look off your face now! Once upon a time all the little puppies went to school , they hung up their bottoms and when they went back to the coat room they had to sniff each one of them to find out where theirs was so that's why they all sniff theirs to this day. . We gotta cut that hair its draining all the life out of you. Don't eat that candy and cake you want to be big as a house~~~!!! You know I've got eyes in the back of my head, no sense trying to pull something when I am not looking.

Answer 4

I was always told" never run with a sharp pencil or I'd put
my eye out". Never run with scissors, as I could trip and stab myself. Eat all of my carrots, as it would make me see better (
and I wore glasses at a very early age). Eat all of my spinach
because then I'd be strong like Popeye. "Drink all of your milk
so you'll have good healthy teeth.
" If you behave one more time, I'm going to send you to a
Catholic school". And there was one three blocks down. I
think every kid had heard how strict nuns were and would use
a ruler on your hands in class.
Never go into a pool until an hour after I'd eaten, or I'd get
stomach cramps and drown.
"Never speak with your mouth full." And never speak to an
adult unless I was spoken to first. Always give thanks before
a meal. And always say my prayers before I went to bed at
night. And asked for blessings for everyone in our family.
'And don't be the "Town Crier" and tell everyone what goes
on in this house'. "Wash your hands before you eat. And make sure you use soap". "Now don't leave the yard, unless I tell you you can". "Don't leave your mouth open like that, or the flies will fly in." Also I was told to close the door for the same reason. Also there was, "chew with your mouth closed".
"Hang up your wet things, I don't want a puddle on my floor".
"I just washed my kitchen floor, take off your boots, you're
tracking mud all over it".
Never eat sunflower seed shells, cuz one day they'ed have
to operate and take my stomach out (full of them). Never eat
watermelon seeds for the same reason.
Look both ways before you cross the street. Wait for the
green light, before you cross. If you burp, always say, Excuse
Me". And before you leave the table, you must ask, "May I
please be excused?" And at the table, always ask, "will you
please pass the ..........?" Instead of grabbing for it yourself.
Since that can cause something to spill and make a mess.
"You have to eat all your dinner, before you can play outside".
If you don't eat all your dinner, you will have to go to bed early". "OK, since you didn't drink all of your milk, you can go to your room".
And of course, there was the " I told you you should have 'went' back there. Now you'll just have to hold it, til we
get there".

Answer 5

I'm laughing so much!!!! And they think us baby boomer were/are mad.

What wrong with you kids of today? Who brought you up?

Relate and had: I'll give you something to cry about.

Close the door, were you brought up in a barn? (it was THEIR house)

Don't swim 1/2 an hour after eating. When there was a pool in the back yard!!!!

And ALL the ones that Gladys posted.

Answer 6

What a wonderful question Shortcut . . . funny how I thought it was my parents saying those things, but actually, it was me! Here's a few of my favorites:

Do you think that money grows on trees?
Pick that up before somebody trips on it and breaks their neck!
Shut the door! I'm not heating the whole neighborhood!
There's enough dirt between your toes to grow potatoes!
Were you born in a barn . . this room looks like a pigsty!
Your father is going to hear about this when he gets home from work, young man/lady!
Am I talking to a brick wall?
As long as you live under this roof, you'll do as I say.
Go to your room and think about what you just did!

And my favorite . . .

Why? Because I SAID so, that's why!

Answer 7

I always wanted to taste coffee and my dad would say "no coz it's makes kids noses turn black." He used to say to eat the crust of your bread coz it would grow hair on your chest.......bought it for awhile till I realized I didn't want hair on my chest...I wanted other things. LOL

He told me chocolate milk came from black cows.

My mothers "sex" talk was don't let a boy touch your knee. LOL Never have either....LOL

Watch your mouth missy or I'm gonna wash it out with soap. (And she did.)

When we went in a store we were told to hold our hands behind our backs to keep our fingers busy so we wouldn't touch anything. My husband still says it to me coz I'm one that touches everything. If it says "press this" I do. LOL

Sing before breakfast and you'll be crying by supper.

There were a ton for sure....most have already been said.

Answer 8

I got a laugh, my mom used to say everyone of those, plus, you can't wear white after Labor Day, you can't go swimming after Labor Day no matter how hot it was,you have to stay out of the water for 1/2 hr after eating or you'll get cramps and drown,1st day of school we wore tie shoes and wool clothes and had to take a sweater to school even if it was 80 degrees.

Answer 9

YES David Essex amazing eyes

Answer 10

"Don't go out in the heat of the day without your blanket".
(this for the times I was doing something without thinking first)

"He (or she) doesn't have the sense that God gave geese".

"I don't care if all your friends are doing it. If all your friends were jumping off a bridge, would you want to do that, too?"

"You can pour syrup on a cow pie, but that doesn't make it a pancake".

And two cardinal rules for children:

"if you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all", and " If it doesn't belong to you, don't touch it!".