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Originally Posted by TootiesMom  my mom said most of those things too, but all she had to do was use the MIDDLE NAME and we were at ATTENTION... LOL.....
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My mom had soooo many girls she sometimes couldn't remember your name.After she ran the gamut of names she was so frustrated by the time she got to the 'right' name that you were in twice as much trouble. LOL
She also got mad when I tried to
tell her who I was so she wouldn't be so mad by the time she got to
my name.
It was a lose/lose situation.
I also remember having to go 'pick the switch'....I really hated that. Her favorite was called dog fennel. It was always greeen with feathery leaves all the way down. If you held onto the top of it, you could just pinch and run your fingers all the way down it and remove the feathery leaves quickly. Limber and painful. I learned to hate the smell of cherries because of the smell of cherry tree switches. I like cherries now, though.
I got to a point where I would bring her a big branch and say "Here. Beat me with this." Made her furious.
ETA: Refusing to cry was one I did too. This also made it worse. I was a stubborn child. My little sister would just fall apart immediately so my mom wasn't as hard on her. Me...I was just very stubborn. I didn't want to give her the satisfaction of knowing how much it hurt.
Ahhhh. Sweet cherished memories.