I have over protective parents. They are better now that I'm in my 40's but still, wow:
don't make a left turn, just go right a few times
never go to a gas station store or a 7-11, that is where people get robbed
don't drive at night, you could get car jacked
floss and brush three times a day, then repeat (made myself lol!!!)
are you wearing a coat? I know it is 80f out, but is it buttoned all the way up?
don't touch door handles, they have germs. just don't go in
slide the car seat back before getting out, saves on upholstery
100 times?? no, chew each bite 200 times
never use a parking lot at night ...sigh
if you have to use one, make the security guard walk you to your car, be sure to be on the phone so they know everyone knows where you are and who you are walking with
This is a bit of a tangent, but someday, when I have a child, I'm going to say, "If you do things right, nobody will be able to tell if you've done anything at all."
I'm pretty sure my wife will be unpleased with me for it, but it's inevitable. If we don't have children, then one of my nephews will get it.
yes, Thursday Soleil, absolutely way over protective...and, sadly, still. I'll get an email every now and then asking if I'm drinking enough water, using protection, locking the door etc...
blah! funny though and I know they meant/mean well
Whenever I couldn't manage to finish all of my dinner I used to hear 'your eyes are bigger than your belly'. Funny how nobody says that to be nowadays :)
Yes, I got the ones similar to some of you -
" not Fair ? - get used to it - LIFE is not fair. "
" Complaining ? Complaining is not going to help the matter - it will only make you feel worse about the matter. So maybe you shouldn't bother complaining " .
On the eating one - I used to do that fairly regularly when i was a kid esp if it was a fave food ( like corn on the cob -cooked on the grill! , or mashed potatoes with gravy ) , I'd fill my plate -and couldnt finish it all and my grandpa would say " your eyes are bigger than your stomach (or belly) " .
Don't burn your bridges! (esp. as applies to work - example - if you leave a job, be sure to give at least 2 weeks notice and leave on a good note) . You never know when you might need or want that bridge later. ;)
If you don't stop crying, I'll give you something to cry about.
There's no use worrying - if it's something you can do something about, do it. If there's nothing you can do, forget about it.
You caught that cold from sitting in a draft. (Can we get iMG for crafting a "draft"?)
Don't sit so close to the TV - you'll ruin your eyes.
If you don't go to other peoples funerals, they won't come to yours. (Well - YAY!)
"Sickness is caused by demonic oppression in your life due to allowing the devil in." My parents were crazy, Satan-obsessed fundy people when I was little. They're slightly better now.
"Act your age" (what the hades does that mean - throw a temper tantrum since I was 6?)
"Don't hang your arm out the car window - a truck will come by and take it off".
"Don't swim for an hour after eating"
"Don't cross your legs - it is not ladylike" (not being ladylike was the ultimate argument with my mom)
And my favorite pair of all time:
"Always tell the truth"
"If you can't say something nice, don't day anything at all"
Oh! On the not swimming for an hour thing... for some reason, I mis-heard the reasoning behind this. I heard "You've gotta wait an hour after you eat before you go swimming, or you'll get crabs*." I spent probably a few years wondering how HECK the crabs would know that I'd just eaten, and not wanting to ever put my feet on the ground underwater for fear that crabs would be following me along, waiting to pinch my toes off or something.
*they were actually saying "cramps." And before you say it, I was like, SIX.
Hah!! I love that quote. We had a similar one when I was little, I think to discourage us from only setting a few goals or from thinking we were "done" once we reached a goal.
Our neighbor had the goal of living to be 100; talked about it all the time. He actually died less than a week after turning 100.
Ahhh, I see now!
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@ Djabrill
Oh, my!! I knew someone who said that all the time! And, when there was an earthquake, she was frightened that the evil spirits would get her. I explained the plate tehtonics thing and she was so surprised, "it's more like a pimple in the earth and isn't evil spirits?"
@Kookabura
I had the arm warning too. My dad saw that happen when he was a kid and he would never let us put our arms out the windows. Oh, every single time we tried to get some air he'd tell the whole story about being on the bus and how some lady had her arm taken off by another bus going the other direction. I'm still not sure I believe the story!!
@Awsome Cardinal, my grandmother had a variation: "Waste Not, Want Not." And you could hear the cap letters in her voice, lol. Another gem was "don't sew your clothes while you're wearing them, or you'll always be poor". Hmm, wonder if that was a metaphor.
I love the one" "this too shall pass". (the good things too? yep)
My mom has a great one, about an overweight great-aunt. Every day, as Auntie popped a chocolate in her mouth she'd blissfully say, "I'll go on a diet... tomor-row~"
Okay, that is too funny Genkicoll! Here is one for you:
My grandmother, who was about sixty pounds over-weight, would eat fried pork rinds and then tell us they were fat free!!! Gramma, that IS fat, I'd say. Gramma, that is fried in fat, my brother would say. Oh, no dears, these are non-fat.
We've got a saying in our family, which goes (roughly translated): "plan something, and things will go quite differently". It's one of the truest sayings I know. :~D
My favorite wisdom came from my grandmother. Whenever I was feeling down, defeated or humiliated, she would remind me "This (day/moment/feeling) too shall pass."