Things You do not Hear Any More
THINGS YOU DON'T HEAR ANY MORE
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> Be sure and refill the ice trays, we are going to have company after while.
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> Watch for the postman, I want to get this letter in the mail today.
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> Quit slamming that screen door!
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> Be sure to pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like it might
> shower -- and bring in the clothes on the line, too.
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> Don't forget to wind the clock before you go to bed.
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> Wash your feet before you go to bed, they are nasty from playing bare footed
> outside all day.
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> Why can't you remember to roll up your pants legs? Getting them caught in
> the bicycle chain so many times is tearing them up.
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> You have torn the knee s out of that pair of pants so many times there is
> nothing left to put a patch on.
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> Don't you go outside with your good school clothes on!
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> Hang up your Sunday School clothes, you know you need to pass them down to
> your brother in good condition.
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> Go comb your hair. It looks like the rats have nested in it all night.
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> Be sure and pour the cream off the top of the milk when you open the new
> bottle. I need it for baking and Pa's coffee.
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> Take that empty bottle to the store with you so you won't have to pay a
> deposit on another one.
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> Put a dish towel over the cake so the flies won't get on it.
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> Quit jumping on the floor! I have a cake in the oven and you are going to
> make it fall if you don't quit!
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> Let me know when the Fuller Brush man comes by, I need to get a few things
> from him.
> You boys stay close by, the car may not start and I will need you to help
> push it off.
>
> There is a dollar in my purse, go by the service station and get five
> gallons of gas when you start to town.
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> Open the back door and see if we can get a breeze through here, it is
> getting hot.
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> You can walk to the store; it won't hurt you to get some exercise. Maybe you
> will learn to be more careful with your bicycle.
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> Don't sit to close to the TV it is hard on your eyes.
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> If you pull that stunt again, I am going to wear you out!
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> Don't lose that button, I will sew it back on after while.
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> Wash under your neck before you come to the table, you have beads of dirt
> and sweat all under there.
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> Get out from under that sewing machine, pumping it messes up the thread!
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> Do you want to go get me a sw itch?
>
> Be sure and fill the lamps this morning so we don't have to do that tonight
> in the dark.
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> Here, take this old magazine to the outhouse (toilet) when you go, we are
> almost out of paper out there.
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> Go out to the well and draw a bucket of water for me to wash dishes in.
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> Don't turn the radio on now, I want the battery to be up when the Grand Ole
> Opry comes on.
>
> No! I don't have five cents for you to go to the show, do you think money
> grows on trees?
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> Eat those vegetables; they will make you big and strong like your daddy.
>
> That dog is NOT coming in this house! I don't care how cold it is out there,
> dogs just don't come in the house.
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> Sit still! I am trying to get your hair cut straight and you keep moving
> and it is getting botched up.
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> Hush your mouth! I don't want to hear w ords like that. I will wash your
> mouth out with soap again!
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> It is time for your system to be cleaned out, I'm going to give you a dose
> of Castor Oil in the morning.
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> If you get a spanking in school and I find out about it, you will get
> another one when you get home.
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> Quit crossing your eyes! They will get hung that way!
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> Soak your foot in this pan of coal oil so that cut won't get infected.
>
> When you take your driving test don't forget your hand signals each turn.
> Left arm straight out the window for a left turn, and left arm bent up to
> the sky at the elbow for a right turn and straight down to the side of the
> door when you are going to stop.
>
> It is "Yes, sir!" and "No, sir" to me and your elders young man, and don't
> you forget it!
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> While we are at Aunt Mary's and Uncle John's you kids eat when the adults
> get though and I don't want to hear, "I don't like this stuff". You better
> keep your mouth shut and eat everything on your plate.
>
> Well, that ought to keep us remembering some of the finer things of
> the past, some good and some not so good, and young man if I hear you repeat
> one word of this, I will beat the daylights out of you, do you understand
> that!