Weird stuff our parents or grandparents said or believed (alcoholic, meeting, wife)
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From the time I was 9-11 we lived with my grandmother because my parents got divorced. My mom was a work and my ear started to hurt bad. I told my grandmother I had an ear ache and asked her for some medicine. She told me that I didn't need any medicine. She would put honey in my ear instead and it will feel better. I looked at her like she was crazy and told her I'd wait for my mom! I always think of her whenever I see a bottle of honey!
My Pop Pop also told me that when he was younger, teachers were hardly ever married. He used to say about women "Are you married or are you a teacher?"
This is a little different from what the OP is asking, but I just said thought of this saying the other day that my mom used to say when my two younger daughters where arguing with each other.
When my brother and I were younger and we used to fight and argue while being on break from school, my mom used to say "Stop fighting or I'll bring you to school". We would say "but we're on break, school is closed" and she would say " I'll bring you to school and you could wait by the doors till they open". Obviously she was kidding, but now being a parent I think it was funny she would say that!
our mother and grand mother used to say the darnest things....
1. Don't make me come in there, and boy did we stop...however, we knew we'd be spanked, and we were and we're not anywhere near the worst for it.
2. If you keep that up, I'll call the police, they'll take you away and feed you nothing but bread and water.
3. when they were going to bed, it was "Lets hit the hay". But we were a farm town.
Nice to remember them....
My sister is a real snob, and this stuff always embarrassed her....she was always extremely insecure...had to have the very best label clothes. She felt clothing told people who she was...but it didn't or doesn't.
Our parents and grand parents, may have been farm people, but, they were hard working human beings....surely not well educated but they had a whole lot more going for them then most today.
My Pop Pop also told me that when he was younger, teachers were hardly ever married. He used to say about women "Are you married or are you a teacher?"
Yep, I do recall that sometimes when I'd read old books or watch old TV shows, women would often have to give up their teaching careers upon marrying.
I even remember Andy's girlfriend Helen on the Andy Griffith Show said at one point that she'd like to marry him someday but for the time being, she really wanted to teach awhile longer.
That bugged me because I couldn't see why she couldn't be married AND teach. Then I'd have to remind myself that times were different back then for women.
From the time I was 9-11 we lived with my grandmother because my parents got divorced. My mom was a work and my ear started to hurt bad. I told my grandmother I had an ear ache and asked her for some medicine. She told me that I didn't need any medicine. She would put honey in my ear instead and it will feel better. I looked at her like she was crazy and told her I'd wait for my mom! I always think of her whenever I see a bottle of honey!
You just reminded me of another one. My mother would blow cigarette smoke into my ear whenever I had an earache.
My husband's grandfather would EAT Vapo rub to cure his congestion! My grandmother would always plant her garden by the Old Farmer's Almanac. I think it had something to do with the phases of the moon.
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He'd eat it?! Yikes! I didn't think anyone's throat, tongue, or stomach could tolerate that!
A friend of mine......her mother ate VapoRub when she was pregnant, she craved it.
Didn't seem to have hurt my friend, who is now 67, or her mother.
our mother and grand mother used to say the darnest things....
1. Don't make me come in there, and boy did we stop...however, we knew we'd be spanked, and we were and we're not anywhere near the worst for it.
2. If you keep that up, I'll call the police, they'll take you away and feed you nothing but bread and water.
3. when they were going to bed, it was "Lets hit the hay". But we were a farm town.
Nice to remember them....
My sister is a real snob, and this stuff always embarrassed her....she was always extremely insecure...had to have the very best label clothes. She felt clothing told people who she was...but it didn't or doesn't.
Our parents and grand parents, may have been farm people, but, they were hard working human beings....surely not well educated but they had a whole lot more going for them then most today.
My family also said 'hit the hay' and none of us were farmers, hadn't been for generations. I thought it was just a southern thing.
My Pop Pop also told me that when he was younger, teachers were hardly ever married. He used to say about women "Are you married or are you a teacher?"
Or a librarian. Do you remember that from It's a Wonderful Life?
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