Anonymous
Post 12/05/2011 11:21     Subject: "Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."
"Nothing can go faster than the speed of light."

Central Jersey specific: Arguing which way to turn the rotor when one person wanted to watch a NYC station on one TV and another wanted to watch a Philadelphia station on the other TV.

Anonymous
Post 12/05/2011 11:09     Subject: Re:"Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."
Anonymous wrote:Stay in this car and don't unlock the doors, I'll be back in half an hour.

My parents would do this all the time...only it was not unusual for them to be in the store/mall for hours shopping.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2011 11:07     Subject: "Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."
"Go stand by the tv and flip the channels til I tell you to stop." "Move the antenna around til I tell you I'm getting a good picture."
"Who changed the channel on the VCR? My soaps didnt record." (This was in the days where you had to leave your tv on the channel you wanted to record).

Anonymous
Post 12/05/2011 09:49     Subject: Re:"Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."
From my mom's childhood, not mine:

"Go out and cut a switch. You're getting a beating."
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2011 09:42     Subject: "Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."
Anonymous wrote:Mom to me: "bring me a beer out the fridge"

Not only did I get the beer from the fridge for her, but she taught me how to pour it into a glass so there would be very little foam on the top. Of course, she now denies teaching me this "life skill."
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2011 08:20     Subject: Re:"Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."
Stay in this car and don't unlock the doors, I'll be back in half an hour.
ThatSmileyFaceGuy
Post 12/05/2011 07:00     Subject: "Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mom to me: "bring me a beer out the fridge"


Hey I let my kid pick out a beer for me often-- he's pretty good at opening them too (but we're still working on his cocktail skills)


Mine charge a quarter per trip to the fridge.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2011 00:05     Subject: "Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."
"Where's the mercurochrome?"
"Use the asbestos trivet"
"Michael Jackson is so cool!!"
"Let's watch music videos on MTV"
"Wanna listen to my walkman?"
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 23:02     Subject: "Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."
Anonymous wrote:Mom to me: "bring me a beer out the fridge"


Hey I let my kid pick out a beer for me often-- he's pretty good at opening them too (but we're still working on his cocktail skills)
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 21:29     Subject: "Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."
Anonymous wrote:Dad buying cigarettes for a quarter from the machine with the pull-knobs


Yeah, I remember this too big time, although he usually bought cartons of unfiltered Lucky Strikes from High's or Peoples. He died of lung cancer by the way.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 21:15     Subject: "Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."
Anonymous wrote:Dad buying cigarettes for a quarter from the machine with the pull-knobs



I had forgotten them. My dad would send me to buy him some Marlboro's when we went to Pizza Hut.

I still have a XMAS ornament of Santa made out of a pull-tab from a beer. I still hang it on our tree 30 years later. We used a pull-tab and pulled a cotton ball for the beard and those googly eyes.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 21:13     Subject: "Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."
Mom to me: "bring me a beer out the fridge"
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 21:08     Subject: "Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"Just put it out the window." -re: trash


I'm assuming you're referring to what people did in renaissance times: defenestration. Because if you grew up just throwing things out a window in the last hundred years, it was called just being slovenly or politically murderous. That scene in Mad Men where they just threw the trash on the grass--it was unrealistic. Only pigs would ever do such a thing. Now they might throw trash down a ravine or into a river. But just dump it out on the open grass? Uptight suburbanites from Westchester would never do this, ever.


wow. strong reaction.


stick.in.the.mud

"You better be in here before the streetlights come on!"

"Hey ma! (Neighbor you knew by name) wants to know if we have any sugar they can borrow."

Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 20:39     Subject: Re:"Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."
"Here's two dollars; run to the store and buy a gallon of milk."

"I'll have the Dorothy Hamil haircut."
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2011 20:27     Subject: "Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."
"Let your little sister ride in the front seat--you were up front last time."