My mother's a short woman, coming in at maybe 5' 4" if she's wearing heels, and just didn't have much reach for disciplining us in the car. Back in the days before seatbelts, when all 3 of us kids would get to arguing and fighting in the back seat, she'd just slam on the brakes and send us piling into the back of her seat which might explain those dents in the top of my head.
Thursday, May 12, 2022
She reminds me of my mother in so many ways...
My mother's a short woman, coming in at maybe 5' 4" if she's wearing heels, and just didn't have much reach for disciplining us in the car. Back in the days before seatbelts, when all 3 of us kids would get to arguing and fighting in the back seat, she'd just slam on the brakes and send us piling into the back of her seat which might explain those dents in the top of my head.
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evil, I may have laughed!
ReplyDelete"Don't make me stop this car!"
ReplyDeleteAnd CPS shows up in 3, 2, 1......
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, my only seat belt was Mom's arm holding me on the seat of the '40 Ford with the steel dash. That's the car I learned to drive when my folks were gone and my brother took us out to the pasture for my first driving lesson. I steered, and ran the clutch while he used the brake and the accelerator pedal. Mom and Dad had to have seen the tracks all over the pasture, but not a word was said.
ReplyDeleteWhen my kids were that age and screeched like that, there was more discipline a-comin'. Took 'em about twice to realize that kind of noise was not going to get them what the wanted.
ReplyDelete-Just a Chemist
As my mom would say if you are going to scream and cry, I’ll give you something to scream and cry about. My siblings and I learned to take our punishment and pain in silence.
Delete(Old Tech) In those days, if I complained, the car stopped and my life got much worse.
ReplyDeleteLooked like junior wasn't to worried about father getting a hold of him?
ReplyDeleteI was driving to my fathers funeral with my father's sister and her daughter in the car. They were bickering about my cousin's choice of clothes, when I used the, "Don't make pull this car over line!" My 60 something aunt was begging forgiveness, my cousin was laughing hysterically and my wife was mortified. I felt I won the Triple Crown that day.
ReplyDeleteOh, too funny. I like her. haha But apparently more discipline is still needed in order for the boy to know better than to take it even that far. I could not imagine even thinking of doing that screamy shit with either one of my parents.
ReplyDeleteThe best learned lessons and the best remembered come from actual experience....
ReplyDeleteI lied & told my kids the seatbelt was linked to the engine. If I heard that 'click' the engine would stall. (Only happened while still in the driveway or parking lot) Only had to do that a couple times & they got the hint.
ReplyDeleteAbbyS
I'm in love! Mother of the freakin' year!
ReplyDeleteI didn't have seatbelts to worry about either (and damned sure not a car seat); I was born in '65.
ReplyDeleteApparently this kid doesn't get his ass busted often enough, or she wouldn't have had to hit the brakes. He would have buckled up just because she told him to. If I ignored or disobeyed my Mom (or, God forbid, Dad), I got my ass warmed up.
I actually didn't get a whipping very often. I knew it would be coming, so I did as I was told.
--Tennessee Budd
My mom was really mean, 5'2" and ornery as hell, when I was a kid I told all of my buddy's that mom had been bitten by a rabid bat and had never been the same, they were scared to death of her. I still laugh about that whopper.
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