Things we don't hear anymore.

[Teresa]

Be sure and refill the ice trays, we are going to have company after
awhile.

Watch for the postman, I want to get this letter in the mail today.

Quit slamming that screen door!

Be sure to pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like it
might shower -- and bring in the clothes that are on the line, too.

Don't forget to wind the clock before you go to bed.

Wash your feet before you go to bed, they are nasty from playing bare
footed outside all day.

Don't you dare wear those pants with a hole in the knee to school.  What
will people think of us?

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.

You have torn the knees out of that pair of pants so many times there
is nothing left to put a patch on.

Don't you go outside with your good school clothes on!

Hang up your Sunday School clothes, you know you need to pass them
down to your brother in good condition.

Go comb your hair.  It looks like the rats have nested in it all
night.

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.

Take that empty bottle to the store with you so you won't have to pay
a deposit on another one.

Put a dish towel over the cake so the flies won't get on it.

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!

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.

Open the back door and see if we can get a breeze through here, it is
getting hot.

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.

Don't sit to close to the TV it is hard on your eyes.

If you pull that stunt again, I am going to wear you out!

Don't lose that button, I will sew it back on after while.

Wash under your neck before you come to the table, you have beads of
dirt and sweat all under there.

Get out from under that sewing machine, pumping it messes up the
thread!

Do you want to go get me a switch?

Be sure and fill the lamps with kerosene this morning so we don't have
to do that tonight in the dark.

Here, take this old magazine to the outhouse (toilet) when you go, we
are almost out of paper out there.

Go out to the well and draw a bucket of water for me to wash dishes
with.

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 ten cents for you to go to the show, do you think
money grows on trees?

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.

Sit still!   I am trying to get your hair cut straight and you keep
moving and it is getting botched  up.

Hush your mouth! I don't want to hear words like that. I will wash
your mouth out with soap again!

It is time for your system to be cleaned out, I'm going to give you a
dose of Castor Oil in the morning.

If you get a spanking in school and I find out about it, you will get
another one when you get home.

Quit crossing your eyes! They will get stuck that way!

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!

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.

Make sure you put on clean under ware. You might have an accident and have to go to the hospital.

(in church)......If you don't quit wiggling I am going to pinch a
hunk out of you that you won't soon forget!

[Wilma]

How many of those do you younger generation need explained to you?

[Judy Harder]

I  can't say all these pertain to me, But, I am aware of them all.

The one about the dirty feet, mom seemed to say a lot. SInce Daddy didn't wear shoes all the time, I got to go barefoot as much as I could............which meant most of summer and just loved, still do, running through (ok, walking now) through a carpet of grass with out any weeds in them.

I don't know how many sand burrs I picked up each summer...........and oh when school time came around and I had to put them back on. . ..............I grew up in the city of Topeka, but always felt like I should have been raised in the Ozarks.LOL>

Thanks for the reminders.
Hugs and God bless

[Carl Harrod]

The following were some comments made in the year 1957:

(1) "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, its going to be impossible to buy a weeks groceries for $20.00."

(2) "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long when $5,000 will only buy a used one."

(3) "If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous."

(4) "Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?"

(5) "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."

(6) "When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage,"

(7) "Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls,"

( "I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying damn in "Gone With The Wind", it seems every new movie has either hell or damn in it."

(9) "I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas."

(10) "Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday that they will be making more than the President."

(11) "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now"

(12) "It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet."

(13) "It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work."

(14) "I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business."

(15) "Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to Congress."

(16) "The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on."

(17) "I guess taking a vacation is out of the question now days. It costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel."

(18) "No one can afford to be sick any more, $35.00 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood."

[Judy Harder]

OH! For the good old days!!!!.
Thanks for the memories.

I really don't want to re-live those days. But,
I sure wish I hadn't been in such a hurry
to get through them.

Have a great day, you all..........Hugs and God bless