Administrators Eric Posted January 31, 2022 Administrators Share Posted January 31, 2022 Get you yelled at: Letting the screen door slam. I don't care how big a hurry you were in, you didn't let that happen. Getting dirt on the laundry on the clotheslines, or even playing too close. That brought swift and terrible retribution. Failing to light a match after you did your business in the bathroom. Failing to refill the ice tray, if you used the last cubes. There was always someone who would leave one cube, to try to dodge that duty. It is a wonder that I have fingerprints today, after growing up with those freaking aluminum icetrays. Whatcha got? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted January 31, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted January 31, 2022 Being in the house after about noon on a summer and/or weekend day. You got told to GTFO and do kid stuff, or if you were really unlucky, mama found some chores for you to do. I think being a mom and a housewife back then was a lot like being Scotty, on Star Trek. They were hard-working and clever as hell, but they wanted you to think that they worked harder than they actually did. They couldn't very well put their feet up and watch TV with a bunch of little witnesses running around. I wonder how many times Scotty gave the captain an, "She giving you all she's got!!!", when he had his feet up drinking a space beer and watch a soccer game on the holotube? 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted January 31, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted January 31, 2022 One of the biggest no-nos, one that would bring the hammer down on adults and kids alike, was walking across a freshly mopped, or (God forbid) waxed floor. I believe that is considered grounds for a justifiable homicide in 37 states. Why is it that mopped gets an extra letter and waxed doesn't? Our language is screwy. It's a conspiracy, I tell you. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Drinking the last of the milk. Mom was a SERIOUS coffee drinker. She had to have sugar and extra milk. If I ever used the last ounce of milk I was walking to the store for more. Turning the heat up if I didn’t already have a sweater on. Burning anything on the stove. This only became an issue after I burned up the kitchen. Mom was a little paranoid after the fire. I’ll give her that one. Moving her blouses out of the dryer. She would dry them then take them out as she needed them. If I touched them she said I permanently wrinkled them. Then I got smacked. I needed to move them so I could do my laundry. Frankly she did it just to screw with me. Plus about a hundred other things based on old superstitions. Those pissed me off. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peng Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Eating a pork chop that was not cooked at 600 degrees for 2 hours. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuteTheMall Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Don't let the air conditioning out! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted January 31, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted January 31, 2022 2 minutes ago, ChuteTheMall said: Don't let the air conditioning out! Or stand with the icebox door open for too long. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampfox762 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Damn!!! Were all you people livin in my house??? I never saw any of ya, but I was gettin the same ass chewins as ya'll were!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted January 31, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted January 31, 2022 You know, a lot of folks never locked their doors back then, but there has never been a sneak-thief or ninja stealthy enough to get past an old screendoor without everyone in the house knowing about it. Any of you ever try to sneak out of the house past a screendoor, after bedtime? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuteTheMall Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 2 minutes ago, Eric said: Or stand with the icebox door open for too long. Our refrigerator was called an icebox, the stereo was called a Victrola, and the sofa was called a Davenport. Old people had their own language. 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted January 31, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted January 31, 2022 3 minutes ago, ChuteTheMall said: Our refrigerator was called an icebox, the stereo was called a Victrola, and the sofa was called a Davenport. Old people had their own language. I had to stop using the term boobtube. Everyone thought I was some sort of perv. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted January 31, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted January 31, 2022 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Not being ready to leave on time on Sundays when we'd go visit Mom in the prison. That'd get ya in trouble... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aomagrat Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Running through the house while mom had a cake in the oven. Corporal punishment if the cake fell. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWARREN123 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Just about everything I did while awake and few things while asleep! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Cicero Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Speaking while Dad was watching the evening news. Not finishing all the food on the plate (God help you if it was pickled beets). Mouthing off to Mom. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted January 31, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted January 31, 2022 3 minutes ago, Mrs.Cicero said: Speaking while Dad was watching the evening news. Not finishing all the food on the plate (God help you if it was pickled beets). Mouthing off to Mom. Yep, "You aren't leaving the table until...!!!" 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Mrs.Cicero said: Mouthing off to Mom. If I talked back I got beat. If I held my tongue I got beat. Either way I got beat. Then she told dad and I got beat again. It was just easier to speak my mind regardless. Still got beat but I felt better. Eventually dad got a clue that mom was nuts. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted February 1, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted February 1, 2022 1 minute ago, Batesmotel said: If I talked back I got beat. If I held my tongue I got beat. Either way I got beat. Then she told dad and I got beat again. It was just easier to speak my mind regardless. Still got beat but I felt better. Eventually dad got a clue that mom was nuts. My mom's Kobayashi Maru when she was yelling at us was to ask, "Who do you think you are!?" She expected an answer and there was NO right answer. An ass-kicking always followed. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 After my mother left us, my dad never touched me. He didn't have to. He could shame you into suicide just talking to you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 2 minutes ago, Eric said: My mom's Kobayashi Maru when she was yelling at us was to ask, "Who do you think you are!?" She expected an answer and there was NO right answer. An ass-kicking always followed. Sounds real familiar. Let me guess. “What were you thinking?” Got the same results. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterfox Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Perry Mason. We would go to my Aunt's house - and if Perry Mason was on - the Mothers, Aunts, etc HAD TO WATCH IT. If any of us kids made any sound during Perry Mason - we would be grease spots on the carpet. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted February 1, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted February 1, 2022 Sitting too close to the TV was another ass chewing. In retrospect, those old TVs might actually have been dangerous to sit close to. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 24 minutes ago, misterfox said: Perry Mason. We would go to my Aunt's house - and if Perry Mason was on - the Mothers, Aunts, etc HAD TO WATCH IT. If any of us kids made any sound during Perry Mason - we would be grease spots on the carpet. Hearing the Perry Mason music meant time to go to bed. WAY to early. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minervadoe Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Not refilling the ice water jug which we kept in the fridge. Walking in front of the t.v. while my sister was watching it. She once yelled at her own feet to, "Get Out of the Way!!" Not clearing the table or doing the dishes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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