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A conversation with my parents growing up... tell me if this sounds familiar. (1 Viewer)

Evilgrin 72

Evilgrin 72

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Essentially every time I tried to relay a humorous anecdote to one of my parents about something that happened in/after school, this would be the way it would go.  Anyone else grow up this way?  By the way, as annoying as it was at the time, I'm grateful for it and would probably do the same to my kids, if I had any.  Ahh, the circle of life.

EG : Ma, I got to tell you about somethin-

Mom : You HAVE to tell me, not GOT to.

EG : I have to tell you about something funny that happened today.  Me and Kev were goin-

Mom : Kevin and I.....

EG : Kevin and I were going to the mall when this guy stops us at the car.  Tall guy, with a mustache.  He goes..."Do you-"

Mom : He SAYS, not he GOES...

EG : He says, "Hey, do you guys have any weed?"

Mom : He asked.

EG:  So Kev goes...

Mom : SAYS...

EG : Kev says "No.  But I have a big bag of heroin if you want any of that."  He was kidding of course.  And the dude is like : "no,but- "

Mom : Was he like "no but?"  Or did he say "no but?"  How is someone like "no but?"

EG : Never mind..... (goes into bedroom and closes door)

Mom : No, tell me !  I want to hear the rest of this....

 
i do this
can't stand the use of and "so i says / so he says" when someone is relaying a story. these sorts of things make me nuts and i correct my kids all the time. my oldest has definitely stormed off in a snit when i have corrected her 9 times in a single story.

it's not a pet peeve but more of a borderline homicidal tic that i've developed over the years listening to people

 
Yep parents did that to me a lot. Grandmom even more. I never do it to my kids purposely. Hated that ####.

 
Insein said:
Yep parents did that to me a lot. Grandmom even more. I never do it to my kids purposely. Hated that ####.
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It used to make me insane.  Both of my parents were educators, my mother until she retired, my father until he got his PhD and went into audiology.  They were total grammar/spelling nazis.  I was so used to speaking this way from talking with my friends/classmates that it carried over into the home, where such transgressions were impermissible.  In fairness, as aggravating as it was, I make virtually no spelling/grammar/syntax errors today when I speak or write, so I suppose there was some upside to it.  I hear intelligent people misuse "[Person] and I" vs. "[Person] and me" all the time now and it sticks out like a sore thumb.  I heard Conan O' Brien brick that twice that other day and he went to Harvard.  I corrected him through the TV.

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
Essentially every time I tried to relay a humorous anecdote to one of my parents about something that happened in/after school, this would be the way it would go.  Anyone else grow up this way?  By the way, as annoying as it was at the time, I'm grateful for it and would probably do the same to my kids, if I had any.  Ahh, the circle of life.

EG : Ma, I got to tell you about somethin-

Mom : You HAVE to tell me, not GOT to.

EG : I have to tell you about something funny that happened today.  Me and Kev were goin-

Mom : Kevin and I.....

EG : Kevin and I were going to the mall when this guy stops us at the car.  Tall guy, with a mustache.  He goes..."Do you-"

Mom : He SAYS, not he GOES...

EG : He says, "Hey, do you guys have any weed?"

Mom : He asked.

EG:  So Kev goes...

Mom : SAYS...

EG : Kev says "No.  But I have a big bag of heroin if you want any of that."  He was kidding of course.  And the dude is like : "no,but- "

Mom : Was he like "no but?"  Or did he say "no but?"  How is someone like "no but?"

EG : Never mind..... (goes into bedroom and closes door)

Mom : No, tell me !  I want to hear the rest of this....
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My Mother's Mother was an English teacher.  When I would write, usually a thank you note for a Christmas or birthday present, she would correct my letter in red ink and send it back. She wondered why I did not write more often.

 
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belljr said:
Not once.  And I probably would never have wanted to tell them that story to begin with :unsure:
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The story is fabricated.  I just needed something to set up the corrections.  Didn't matter what it was, they were like vultures waiting to descend and pick apart any mistake.

 
My sense of humor is almost completely based in my childhood handling of that kind of thing, though both my folks were too poorly-educated to use grammar as their lone metier. My eldest cousin used to say that he never saw two parents work so hard nor so unsuccessfully at getting their child to be what they wanted him to be than mine. Me Da is a genius (invented the growlight) farmboy & me Ma is an orphan immigrant Irish list-keeper & grudge-manager who would have been an Olympic-level competitor if bossiness was an event and doubtless be an HR Director or CFO today. Nonetheless, easily the two most self-conscious, class-conscious people who could ever stand each other (they married late - there's a reason).

Being their brilliant boy was like being a mannequin on Project Runway. I responded publicly by presenting a perfect-haired, bright-eyed. rosy-cheeked angel who learned to compliment adults in a way that smarties knew was actually the opposite then found a way to get all the other kids drunk at a public function of some kind, and privately by using words & actions to keep adults off-balance,. When me Ma would begin listing the fourteen infractions responsible for her being about to thrash me with the vaccuum cleaner, i would stick out my tongue, begin to cry & yell in entire panic "THERE'S A HAIR ON MY TONGUE! I DON'T WANT A HAIR ON MY TONGUE, MOMMY!! (frantic hand-waving) SOMEBODY GET THIS HAIR OFF MY TONGUE!!!" or run circles around the house, singing the longest trains of non-sequitirial words i could manage in the gayest (and therefore scariest) way possible. I've been making fun of life and getting one over on authority figures and having a ball in similar ways ever since

 
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The one my mother used to ALWAYS correct was I used to say something was "so fun" and she used to correct me to say "so much fun". I don't even know if she was right.

 
Ditkaless Wonders said:
My Mother's Mother was an English teacher.  When I would write, usually a thank you note for a Christmas or birthday present, she would correct my letter in red ink and send it back. She wondered why I did not write more often.
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Grandmother

HTH

 
shadyridr said:
The one my mother used to ALWAYS correct was I used to say something was "so fun" and she used to correct me to say "so much fun". I don't even know if she was right.
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I heard that one about 643,000 times.  Your mom was right.  I was told : "It's either so much fun" or "such fun", never "so fun."

Another one that drives her nuts is when someone says that a certain food is "healthy."  It's HEALTHFUL

 
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My parents did that to a certain extent, but not nearly as much as in the OP.  I didn't give them many reasons to constantly correct me, though.

 
Ditkaless Wonders said:
My Mother's Mother was an English teacher.  When I would write, usually a thank you note for a Christmas or birthday present, she would correct my letter in red ink and send it back. She wondered why I did not write more often.
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Same here. My grandmother would (and still will) correct you in person, but I never got any returned thank you notes. That's hardcore! :lol:   But also probably explains your poetic prose versus my run-on stream of consciousness with comma splices running amok. 

 
if you dropped someone from the early part of the century into a conversation with today's generation, I wonder if they could even follow along.

"that movie was lit AF, it gave me all the feels. deada$$. then my bae got turnt, and I told him he was being extra. he needs to be woke like me and start adulting."

 
Maik Jeaunz said:
if you dropped someone from the early part of the century into a conversation with today's generation, I wonder if they could even follow along.

"that movie was lit AF, it gave me all the feels. deada$$. then my bae got turnt, and I told him he was being extra. he needs to be woke like me and start adulting."
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I'm from the latter part of the century (presuming you mean the 20th) and I can't even entirely follow along.

 
Maik Jeaunz said:
if you dropped someone from the early part of the century into a conversation with today's generation, I wonder if they could even follow along.

"that movie was lit AF, it gave me all the feels. deada$$. then my bae got turnt, and I told him he was being extra. he needs to be woke like me and start adulting."
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Evilgrin 72 said:
I'm from the latter part of the century (presuming you mean the 20th) and I can't even entirely follow along.
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If Barbara Billingsley was alive we could see if she could interpret for you. 

(A now increasingly obscure reference, and not perfect since this isn't Jive.) 

 
Back in the day, if any one of my pals made the mistake of asking my father if they could borrow the bathroom,

it was game on... :boxing:

:lmao:

 
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Evilgrin 72 said:
I would have been kicked out of the house for this.
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peaces said:
I don't like it, but I except it.
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Help me out here EG... Unless it's supposed to be 'didn't' and 'expected'. In which what is the correct terminology is speaking in the present tense. 

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
Essentially every time I tried to relay a humorous anecdote to one of my parents about something that happened in/after school, this would be the way it would go.  Anyone else grow up this way?  By the way, as annoying as it was at the time, I'm grateful for it and would probably do the same to my kids, if I had any.  Ahh, the circle of life.

EG : Ma, I got to tell you about somethin-

Mom : You HAVE to tell me, not GOT to.

EG : I have to tell you about something funny that happened today.  Me and Kev were goin-

Mom : Kevin and I.....

EG : Kevin and I were going to the mall when this guy stops us at the car.  Tall guy, with a mustache.  He goes..."Do you-"

Mom : He SAYS, not he GOES...

EG : He says, "Hey, do you guys have any weed?"

Mom : He asked.

EG:  So Kev goes...

Mom : SAYS...

EG : Kev says "No.  But I have a big bag of heroin if you want any of that."  He was kidding of course.  And the dude is like : "no,but- "

Mom : Was he like "no but?"  Or did he say "no but?"  How is someone like "no but?"

EG : Never mind..... (goes into bedroom and closes door)

Mom : No, tell me !  I want to hear the rest of this....
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:lmao:

If you ever watch reality TV and I hope you don't, the abuse and misuse of our language is an affront to me and I find myself correcting them even though they can't hear me.  Thank you Ma Malaise for that little life gift. 

 
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