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What's the most annoying thing your parents said?

SweetFeet

SweetFeet

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Dad (who had a John Deere A and a DC3 Case):

If you said you were hungry (at an auction, for example), Dad would always reply, "Well, lick salt - then you'll be thirsty."

If you started a reply with, "Well"... dad would always retort, "A well is a hole in the ground."

Mom:

If you fussed about something, mom would say, "I'll give you something to cry about".

EDIT: Forgot one of mom's: "Because, I said so!"...[i:fc200b10b6] which I have to admit... I am guilty of saying to our kids. :)[/i:fc200b10b6]
 
Well now that you asked, "If that could be done someone smarter than you would have already done it" just made me plum mad!
 
I heard the "I'll give you something to cry about" one from mom too. Quite a few time too. lol The one that dad said that always made me feel good til I figured it out was if I was fishing for a compliment for something he would say "you'll make a man before your mother". Imagine my surprise when I finally figured out mom was never going to be a man. lol
 
not what my parents said but my kids might say what I always said to them,,, they would start to argue with "Yea But" I would always get them by saying "Yea But's don't come till Easter" got them every time LOL
 
When I was a teenager and running after girls till late at night/early morning.....the worst thing was"GET UP!"
Now I am the one shouting it at our house!!!!!!!!
LOL..........Sam
PS I wish I could hear my Dad shouting that again, but he died in "97
 
My Father would always put us boys down when every we would do anything "different" than he thought was right. The two that got me the most where:

"your lower than whale $hit"

"Your as useless as T!ts on a bore hog"

Maybe he did motivate me. Over my life time when ever I would get the feeling I could not keep going I would remember his comments. I would finish whatever it was just to throw sand in his eyes so to speak.

One time about ten years ago or so He was trying to take credit for us kids doing fairly well. I shut him down real fast. I told him that he was kind of correct. Whenever we did some thing we just made sure to do just the opposite of what he would have done, that was usually right.
 
"Its not what you want, its what you get that counts."

We got the "I'll give you something to cry about" line sometimes, too. First time I used that line on our kid, wife took me firmly by the arm into another room and told me in no uncertain terms that I was NEVER to say that again, EVER. Turns out that her dad said it often, then followed up on it before she could get herself calmed down. He was abusive. I never met him- he was killed just before we met.
 
My Dad when you asked him can we do something that he didn't want to do would say
" Lets not and say we did "
Mom would always say when you would say I wish
" Wish in one hand and sh%t in the other and see which one gets fuller faster "
 
My father would say "Use your head for something besides a hatrack".I thought I was the only one he ever said that to.
 
That's easy because it was always the same thing. A product of the Great Depression, everytime my father would talk to me it always started with; 'When I was your age....' then continue the lecture with '...we were so poor we ate dirt for Christmas...' or '...we were so poor we couldn't afford weather...' etc, etc. The irony was that he could never figure out why I never wanted to talk to him.
 
I thought my name was Hey You.

Mom was always. Well you can explain it to your dad.

Dad was.

You don't work. You don't eat.

No one gets off this planet alive. Never did understand that one.

Can't never could do anything.

To stop our complaints about doing what he wanted done.

What did I say.
 
Ha! Good one Larry!

I remember a truck driver who said he thought his first name was DammitCleve, and his last name was Areyoustuckagain.
 
"It aint right. its not wrong,but it aint right."I could never figure that one out till I got older.
 
when one would attempt to repair equipment correctly for my ole man ,his comment would be "it just aint worth it" and "am I right or wrong"
 
Having read the replies thus far I think I heard all but maybe one or two from either my parents or grandparents growing up. Funny thing now is that I use many of them myself.

That said, I noticed several of the replies where the person posting said that the comments were meant to "put them down", and they weren"t all that happy about it, BUT, they worked because you performed to exceeded your parents expectations "just to spite them".... To that all I can say is that if many of us, especially the guys, would look back at our childhood and be honest about the attitudes we had at the time, or at least the attitude our parents perceived we had, the comments worked. Thing is they worked because we "knew better" than our parents and they "knew it too". As a result they knew if they said to do one thing we"d never do it, but when something was presented as a challenge to our "vast knowledge and abilities" we"d do it just so show we could, whether it"s what we thought was right or not. In the end, like it or not, real parenting has never come with instruction manuals so they always just do the best they can. Looking at it another way, "modern" parents have instruction manuals out the ying-yang telling them to do this or that, not to do this or that, and on and on. Problem is look at the kind/quality of kids being raised in the majority of cases based on these principles. Many arte lazy, whiny, and have a sense of self worth greater than our national debt...and those of us raised without instructions are having to support them.

So like it or not, I think most of our perents did a pretty dang good job whether we"d really care to admit it or not. But that"s just my .02 because I know I "knew it all" for a long time growing up, and my Dad had to constantly challange me to listen and do better.....and I didn"t like it at the time......but now I"m glad I did........
 
We lost Dad when I was only ten years old but I will never forget whenever we asked him what time it was he would say "Come with me and we will go down to the shop and I will show you how to build a watch." Also when he was going somewhere and we could not go with him he would always say that he had to go "see a man about a dog." That was sixty two years ago and I don't think that their has been a day that sometime during that day that I have not thought about him.
 
When I would screw up, which I did on a regular basis it seems,
"You can be replaced by a billy goat and two pushes of a button."
I still don't know what the 'ell he meant. LOL
I assume the billy goat had something to do with the food I ate.
 
Along with the "I'll give you something to cry about", my dad had a few good ones when my two brothers and I were growing up.

Anything said that began with "Hey," dad would always say "Hay? Straw is cheaper, grass is free...dontcha wish you were a cow?"

Whenever one of us asked where he/we were going, he'd always say "Elephant hunting"....that would shut us up for a few minutes while we pondered the idea.

If I didn't want to get out of bed, I usually always heard about his Army service and what they'd do to someone who didn't jump right out of bed.

And of course he ALWAYS said, and still does, "Oh, that cow's just bluffing, she won't hit you".....come to think of it, I haven't heard him say that for a couple years, since the last time I helped him get up and dust cow tracks off his back.

Grandad had a few too, but the one I remember most that he said, whenever he was in a hurry to get on with something(which was always) was "Time's a-wastin'"


Not something my dad said, but something I read once that sure applied to my dad and granddad both, is "There are three ways to do something. The easy way, the hard way, and Dad's way, which makes the hard way look plum simple".
 

"We were so broke we ate biscuits and gravy for breakfast every morning, if we could borrow the flour."
Dad was the last of 11 kids in Tenn.
 
If I said I can't to something, Daddy would say 'can't never could'. If we asked where he was going, he would say 'Going up Cripple Creek'.
Richard in NW SC
 
So aggravating was the usual reply to a question: "Well, if you don't KNOW, I'm not gonna tell you".

The next worse one was when asked what time is it? The reply: "Time for all fools to die....aren't you feeling SICK "?

Those and many others have never passed my lips spoken to my own three kids....
 
Whenever us kids "wished for something", Dad would tell us: "Wish in one hand and XXXX in the other hand and see which hand gets full the fastest."

It wasn't that he didn't want us to have things, with 5 kids he just couldn't afford to buy much, especially during the depression of the 1930's.
 
One that I don't hear very often and I'm not sure what it means but my dad and uncle used to use all the time was "cat for to make kitten britches...you want a pair?"
 
The response to "That's not fair" was :

Fair is a nice day, a pretty girl, and what you take your pig to.

If you were in bed too long the yell was:

Get up - people die in bed!
 
(quoted from post at 06:08:20 02/02/14) Dad (who had a John Deere A and a DC3 Case):

If you said you were hungry (at an auction, for example), Dad would always reply, "Well, lick salt - then you'll be thirsty."

If you started a reply with, "Well"... dad would always retort, "A well is a hole in the ground."

Mom:

If you fussed about something, mom would say, "I'll give you something to cry about".

EDIT: Forgot one of mom's: "Because, I said so!"...[i:6e4f6173a7] which I have to admit... I am guilty of saying to our kids. :)[/i:6e4f6173a7]
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"For Cryin out loud" ...verbal abuse when we did something bad.

When dad was putting on his cap and coat and we would ask what he was going to do...."$hit in my shoe and throw it at you"

When a piece of food would fall on the floor. "Eat it, you eat "over" a ton of dirt every day anyway"...

"You're a real fart smeller....I mean a smart feller"....
 
JD, that sounds like my dad.

But it went far beyond the put downs. "You're THE stupidest, THE most worthless...", etc. etc. Usually he found it most effective in a room full of people he was trying to impress.

Did it motivate me?

Guess it did, just another way of trying to get one over on him by proving him wrong.

And maybe it was his sick way of motivating. A few have told me he actually bragged about me when I wasn't there to hear it. Now that DID take me by surprise!
 
My parents both used your mother"s sayings regularly. My Dad had one more "classic" -"children are made to be seen and not heard."
 

I'll add one to this. My mother was a fine Christian lady and took us to church regularly. But, when she would get really really angry at us youngin's for doing something very bad...she would say "Sh*t fire". That usually followed with a good switching or a painful pinching at the time. Many years later I was pondering on that one day and asked a very old black fellow that took care of the buildings and grounds where I was at. He looked me straight in the eye and said..During the depression when someone needed to light a fire or stove, somebody would say, "Sh*t Fire and Save the Matches"! I would have never known this if I hadn't asked after all those years. She was raised on a farm during the depression so it seems to fit.
 
The most annoying thing? I haven't a clue. The dumbest thing? "Booze/cigarettes won't hurt you.", " I drive better when I'm a little drunk.", "I'd rather be thrown from a car than be seat belted in." (From my Dad who died because he wasn't belted!), "She's a real nice girl." (From my Mom trying to set me up with a bar fly she met.)

Doesn't matter how annoying or stupid they were at times, I'd give an awful lot to have them back.
 
As a kid,..go wash your hands,..you can't eat like that. :roll:
And ,..go get dressed,..time to go to church :roll:
 
"I can't make you do that, but I can make you wish you had!"
"Dollar waiting on a dime!"
Then there was the one that took the place of "useless as teats on a boar hog" applied to electric utility line workers"
"six men up a guy stub, and no hand line!"
 
Delta Red, my dad said the same thing about hats and hatracks. Cousin, too. from South Carolina Dave
 
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