I was reading Antipo's blog and noticed that the possible punishment for saying a naughty word is being sent to boarding school. Antipo then makes it sound wonderful, think Madeline, and says it would be a wonderful treat.
When I was a kid living in Philadelphia there two threats for bad behavior. The belt (father) or wooden spoon (mother) were for minor offenses and wielded pretty much at will or as needed.
Next, was the threat that the police would be called and I'd be sent to reform school for bad boys. Nobody wanted to go there because you had to clean the floor with a lemon all day and then rats ate your toes while you slept at night.
Small wonder that when I was about 7 or 8 a man pulled over in front of our house and tried to get me to into his car. I refused and ran inside to tell on him. My parents called the police and it took a lot of convincing to get me out from behind a chair to speak to the officer and provide a description because I figured he was there to get me and drag me off to reform school for being a tattle tale.
Posted by bbarton at January 17, 2006 09:59 AMHA! That's good. I'm going to use that rat eating toes thing next time a kid gets out of line.
My mom had a spoon too! What's up with that!??
Posted by: Kat in da Hat on January 17, 2006 03:14 PMI don't quite get the tomato reference! I do know the song: "You say tom-ay-to and I say to-mah-to".
Are you trying to insinuate that I have some kind of accent?!!
Katy - Tell me about it!
Kat in da Hat - I could never decide if wooden or plastic hurt more...
Antipo - You say boarding my parents said reform. ;) You have an accent?
Posted by: Bob on January 18, 2006 09:36 AMi got lucky.... my parents didn't use any type of corporal punishment on me. of course, I was so quiet, shy and good they wouldn't have ever needed to use it anyway. Except maybe for that ONE TIME I threw tar on the back of a neighbor's trailer. It's still there after all these years too! lol
Posted by: Dawn (webmiztris) on January 18, 2006 01:05 PMWould you like it if I did? ;D
Posted by: Antipodeesse on January 18, 2006 01:15 PMMy sister is a good one to scare the crap out of her kids to get them to behave. It's not "you can't go outside because you might get lost"...it's "you can't go outside because IF you get lost a bear will EAT YOUR ASS!"
Posted by: kari on January 19, 2006 05:56 PMMy mom was a master at CP. The worst was the Hot-Wheels track- that shit hurt like hell. Especially if the red connector tab was still in the track, it had a mildly serrated edge, but it was enough to make it hurt even more.
When I got older, and all the track was gone, she got pretty good at boxing your ears. Not bad for 5'5' and 95 lbs, huh?
Posted by: Jim on January 20, 2006 02:34 AMhello? you are starting to post like me...lol slacker
I've definitely been slacking. ;)
Posted by: Bob on January 23, 2006 01:44 PM
LOL.......Scary and funny all at the same time.
Posted by: Katy on January 17, 2006 10:35 AM