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What was your parents' direst threat?

AskMyChocolate

Okay, so it tends to be a version of " Just wait 'til I get you home."

But what was the variation in your house ?

In our house, it was:

1) " If I have to come up those stairs and I tell ye, there'll be wigs on the green"

2) "For two pins now, and I'll turn this car around, and nobody will be going anywhere."

and

3) *looks for copywrite symbol*

"I'll reach back there now in a minute and I don't care who I hit"*

*done while raising a finger off the steering wheel to salute the oncoming driver, and lighting a Players No.6*

So AHers. What were your parents' favourite threats?

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storm2811

LambsEye wrote: »

. Or running away from her and laughing when she's chasing you with a spatula/wooden spoon.

LAUGHIN?!
Jase if we laughed when we were in trouble then that was it..game fcukin over.:pac:

LambsEye

Does anyone ever think that parent's 10/15/20 years ago were always sliiiiiiiightly borderline abusive?

I mean, we all laugh about it now but going to the shop alone when I was 9 with a note from my mom saying it's ok to sell cigarettes to a 9 year old.... Or running away from her and laughing when she's chasing you with a spatula/wooden spoon.

I mean, her favourite line was:

Me: "MAAAAAAAAAAAAMMM, I fell."
Mam: "Is it bleeding?"
Me: "No"
Mam: "Go back outside and play of you won't get a loop the loop after dinner."

I can't imagine any modern day Mams treating their little Xaviers and Lillibeths like this!!

dark crystal

If we misbehaved in the supermarket, she'd tell us the people with the badges on (i.e; any uniformed staff ) would take us into the bold children's room at the back of the shop where the cold freezer stuff was kept until she'd finished shopping.

Kept us quiet enough.

cackhanded

The good old wooden spoon dance with mam - her left hand trying to keep hold of us while blows rained from the spoon in her right, while we did our best to keep moving in a circle around her. We always bring it up with her at a family dinner after she's had a couple of glasses of wine and have a good laugh about it.

Her worst was "I'll get the boogie man to come and take you away" - huh, who?

cucbuc

"Where's me wooden spoon?!" and "I'll be dug outta ya" ..followed when slightly calmer by "ye'll have me in the mental (hospital) between the whole lot of ye"

Our favourite one to laugh now about as siblings is "If I have to come UP them F***ing STAIRS to ye..." (never finished)

happy times:D Never did us any harm:eek:

Griffen262

and...."Shut up the fúckin' pair of ye or i'll make ye walk from fúckin' here"

Fúck, Fúck, Fúck, Fúck etc etc...

LambsEye

Or when your Da would make you go out to cut a switch off the briar bush and he'd bate you with it...

Say Your Number

My Father would threaten me with 'the plant' when i was younger.

MoodeRator

yep the spoon and the slipper were bad enough but the fecking belt! the sting off that buckle was something to remember! :mad:

Millicent

Rothmans wrote: »

Probably no where near as bad as it sounds lol

Go grab a slipper (the ones your Dad would have had) bend the toe back and slap it against the cheek of your arse. Stinger!

Rothmans

Millicent wrote: »

Anyone ever get the slipper? Sounds funny but that thing hurts!

Probably no where near as bad as it sounds lol

Tar.Aldarion

The black shoe

Millicent

redz11 wrote: »

The wooden spoon. Always that dreaded wooden spoon.

And it wasn't just a threat either!

Anyone ever get the slipper? Sounds funny but that thing hurts!

LambsEye

Alan_007_ wrote: »

"The man will come over and give out to you"

Why do parents do this? Outsourcing their discipline. I used to waitress and I'd get Mams saying "Stop now or the lady will throw you out." I won't like. I won't do anything with your child.

Alan_007_

"The man will come over and give out to you"

W.Shakes-Beer

Lockstep wrote: »

I hated that wooden spoon. It seems to be a uniquely Irish method of keeping kids in line.

Too bad most of the arsehole kids around nowadays have never felt the rath of the wooden spoon.

Nemanja91

"I'll break your f*cking legs"

kraggy

"I'll kill ya stone dead".

Fyi, regarding wigs on the green as per OP:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-wig1.htm

Ricardo G

some_dose wrote: »

Every morning we'd be passing by the hospital and my dad used to say to me and my sisters that there was a room in the hospital where there were witches and that if we were bad we would be sent there.

Terrified me for years.

lol for a minute their i thought you were gonna say "their's a room in there and you'll both be in it if your not careful"

some_dose

Every morning we'd be passing by the hospital and my dad used to say to me and my sisters that there was a room in the hospital where there were witches and that if we were bad we would be sent there.

Terrified me for years.

Ricardo G

Fishie wrote: »

If we were bickering in the car, my mum would tell us she'd dump us at the side of the road and drive off. She actually did this once to my sister, she only drove around the corner but the point was made!

My father would just stop the car and beat the crap out of us.... much more effective:D

evercloserunion

F*cking wooden spoon.

Whenever I did something bad and knew I would be found out I would try to hide it.

LambsEye

Fishie wrote: »

If we were bickering in the car, my mum would tell us she'd dump us at the side of the road and drive off. She actually did this once to my sister, she only drove around the corner but the point was made!

When we were fighting in the car and my Mam was driving, she'd reach her hand around and start smacking any bit of skin she could find.

My Dad used to say: "Don't be sorry, just don't do it again," which, when I think about it is TERRIBLE advice.

Scarinae

If we were bickering in the car, my mum would tell us she'd dump us at the side of the road and drive off. She actually did this once to my sister, she only drove around the corner but the point was made!

phasers

"If you don't stop that Ted will come and smother you"

(Remember Ted, from the Den? Yeah, him. When I was older the Ted family expanded, he had a wife and a load of little baby teds who all wanted to smother you)

Micky Dolenz

We'll send you back to the orphanage

Cruel bastards.

Griffen262

Many wooden spoons were cut up and hid around our house...

LambsEye

"I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed." Fuck off Mom. You're mad, I know you're mad, let's call a spade a spade.

Galway K9

Alter-Ego wrote: »

The wooden spoon of course. Always a threat, never used.

Another one was "I'll sell ya to the gypsies"

lucky b*****d!

Giselle

I was never threatened with a wooden spoon or with a slap. My parents were into psychological warfare and would threaten me with their disappointment.

Like ''If you don't behave yourself while the visitors are here, I'll be very disappointed'' or ''If you don't have x and y done by the time I'm home, I'll be very disappointed''. It worked. I don't know why, but the thought of my parents being disappointed in me was devastating.