29 thoughts on “I Knew This One Instantly”

  5. 4 seconds, and now I’m having PTSD flashbacks of mom swinging the wooden spoon at me.

      • If that was your mom I must have been awarded the Mother of the Year. But mine were born in the ’60s and got their share of spanking and go to your room. Nothing to do there but sit on bed and muse about how unfair I was. But both kids grew up and never end a conversation without an ‘I love you’ at the end.

        • You have to step out of the box and come to the understanding I was a young hellyan, Even back then I knew how to push buttons and when you have a full Irish mother, I got spanking and if too far away or retreating at a distant, that is when the missile flew. A family of six and my brother and me were hard cases so to speak, my 4 sisters were absolute angels… My mom couldn’t send me to my room, that is where my books were or a nap was welcome, that isn’t punishment. I had to sit beside her with no books or no nodding off.

  6. Knew it instantly, but not because I had it hurled at me — got it from neighbors’ mouths talking to THEIR kids.

    My grandparents raised me out in the boonies ’til I was 13 and my mother remarried. My grandmother, who spoke with Jesus every morning, never swore . . . ever. Closest I heard her come to it was, “Waal . . . I swan.” And that was around 1950 when she first saw a TV.

    My grandfather’s only foray into obscenity (that I ever heard) was, “Roosevelt’s a sonofabitch.” Never gave FDR a break even after the guy died in office.

  8. OK, I cheated. I looked it up. I did get the first half or so before being stumped. My mother used to use an 18″ ruler when I was a kid, until one time when I was around 13 I’d had enough of that, I took it away from her, snapped it in half and handed it back to her.

    • My grandmother had a willow in the corner of the yard. I hated having to fetch a switch, because it had better meet her standards.

    • Cutting your own switch pays double indemnity now doesn’t it. Psychological and physical pain. But it also toughens you up.

  10. My Irish mom was especially crafty, she like to use a round hairbrush to hit you with. It was easy for her to use and it hurt like hell.

  12. Heard a couple of times…that’s all it took. Heard my 38 year old daughter say a similar version with my “strong willed” grandson; but it was about getting in the “tub” instead of the “house”.

  13. Never heard it. My parents did not cuss. Dad’s warning was “That’s enough” and “The Look.” Mom’s was your full given name as it appeared on your birth certificate. And you didn’t run from either one of them.

  14. Born in 55 graduated in 73. Knew it right away. My mom never cussed but if she used your full name you knew you where in for it.

    • Same here. Grandfather was in the Navy (between WW1 and WW2) and could curse like the sailor he was. My parents never swore, even when causing a grease fire in the kitchen, or hitting a thumb with a hammer.
      Personally, I use the word fuck like a comma.

  15. Got it the first time I went through the letters! I’m a redneck kid, 1965 model.

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