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Nostalgia -- I can't be alone in this (Callie)

Posted : 8/28/2011 4:53:05 PM

My maternal grandmother was one of the most influential people in my life and she's been gone for 20 years or better. But there are certain situations where I can hear her "say" something as clear as day as if she's at my shoulder. Honestly I love it when it happens because it draws her memory closer and often it **is** something pretty darned funny.

Today I was back on remotely "hooked" to my Dad trying to help him solve yet another small computer glitch and after much ado about nothing FINALLY I got the issue resolved. And as I sat here feeling just a wee bit relieved I heard "Well .... THERE!!!" in my ear. And I remembered - it's something she would say in a similar circumstance as "Well there finally THAT is done and over" -- except SHE said it **all** with "Well ... THERE!"

She's also the lady who also used to say "Any problem you have is made just a little more manageable if you sit down to a nice cup of tea in the **prettiest** cup you can find!" (I've told THAT one before ...)

So fess up folks -- I can't be the only one with decendants with wise sayings. Some of them come true when you don't want them to, some of them just become part of our idiomatic speech --

What ones do you love ... and what ones guilt you out big time LOL

miranadobe

Posted : 8/28/2011 4:57:05 PM

My grandfather would say "Persist and persevere" and his mother would say "Make a decision. If you don't like the outcome, make another decision." Sometimes it's as simple as that = I don't have to know the exact right answer because if I get it "wrong" or don't like where I end up, I just make another decision. Takes some of the weight out of it, which helps me.

calliecritturs

Posted : 8/28/2011 5:04:20 PM

Yeah -- I knew we'd see some wisdom here. (*girn* after a kerfuffle about "what are we going to do" MY mother says "Ok -- let DO something ... even if it's wrong!!"

mrstjohnson

Posted : 8/28/2011 5:23:55 PM

My granny's favorite saying after a party was, "if someone didn't have a good time it was their own fault."

My sassy Italian grandma used to say, "oh my word, that sure does suck, doesn't it" LOL I use this almost every day!

l.michelle

Posted : 8/28/2011 7:06:56 PM

When eating food I was sure I wanted to, my Nona would say "eat it, and if it kills you then you just won't eat it again". :)

sl2crmeg

Posted : 8/28/2011 8:24:39 PM

My own PERSONAL favorite is "put on your big girl panties and deal with it". Whoever came up with that is a wise, wise girl.

rwbeagles

Posted : 8/28/2011 9:13:51 PM

None I can post in a family friendly forum. My famiily is not particularly good at brain mouth filtering, nto even or more accurately...ESPECIALLY not the older generation ;). We have plenty of sayings and zingers...none of them fit for mixed company.

janobonano

Posted : 8/28/2011 9:15:46 PM

rwbeagles
None I can post in a family friendly forum. My famiily is not particularly good at brain mouth filtering, nto even or more accurately...ESPECIALLY not the older generation ;). We have plenty of sayings and zingers...none of them fit for mixed company.

hahaha! Same here. Instead of Paige's mom's nice way of saying things, around here it was "S*** or get off the pot!"

miranadobe

Posted : 8/28/2011 10:28:08 PM

mrstjohnson

My sassy Italian grandma used to say, "oh my word, that sure does suck, doesn't it" LOL I use this almost every day!

Shoot, "suck" was one of a few words that was absolutely forbidden around my house. For some reason, my mom has a MAJOR problem with that word. As well as being called by her first name by her children - that reeeeaally pisses her off. I used to work at the same building and she insisted I called her Mom, even though she'd never turn around in the hallways until I said her first name!

oranges81

Posted : 8/28/2011 10:51:50 PM

My dad's favorites were: Deal with it! You're a big girl. and Suck it up Buttercup, it only gets worse.

mrstjohnson

Posted : 8/29/2011 8:28:22 AM

Most of my Italian grandma's saying were in Italian promptly followed by my Dad saying, "don't repeat that". After I learned Italian I figured out why Wink

TheDogHouseBCMPD

Posted : 8/29/2011 9:24:16 AM

My Dad always used to say "If it was a snake it would have bit ya" after me or my brother would say we couldn't find something and it was apparently right in front of our faces. One I remember from my mom was "don't cry for nothing" which was her response if I was crying about something silly (literally just made this connection...Hannah does the same thing and I have become my mother, lol).

Everytime we go see Pap we come back w/ a new Papism, but they aren't necessarily words of wisdom, but rather just funny/endearing stuff that he says, since @ this point he has completely lost (or decided to give up) his filter.

shadowsgin

Posted : 8/29/2011 10:17:57 AM

My nostalgia about my Granny (which by the way was a word she would not tolerate us calling her) is not a saying but what she loved and what we did together. She loved to garden, I helped her every summer. As a young girl I didnt much care for it, now I am just like her. Everytime I see my flowers bloom I think of her. There are many times that I believe she is looking down on me and smiling because I did pay attention.

My Dad has always had a saying which both me and my children are very familiar with "They can't eat ya". Always used in a moment of extreme stress or financial burden :)

One memory is more recent, a very dear friend told me this one day when I was especially stressed.. fibro flaring, working 2 jobs and worrying about hubby who had a broken neck. After visiting with her, she said.....get in the shower and "wash it away". This one I think about every morning before starting my day :) I dont see her much but that one little sentence made a very big impact.

CoBuHe

Posted : 8/29/2011 10:54:59 AM

My late FIL used to say in response to someone saying "I beg your pardon": Don't beg, you are old enough to steal. LOL

Liesje

Posted : 8/29/2011 12:26:17 PM

This is not really a saying but my grandma who is/was my favorite person ever passed in Jan. 2010 and one of my favorite memories is of her taking me on walks around the cottages where we stay every summer and identifying wild flowers. When she passed I was remembering when I was really little (when we still did stuff together, before she was crippled with arthritis) and had this image of a flower in my mind, except I couldn't see it well enough to identify it. However I knew that if I looked for this flower, I'd just know when I found it, even though I wouldn't know what I was looking for. For the past two summers at the cottage I've been looking for that flower, walking in the woods alone or with my dogs remembering my grandma taking me on walks. Two weeks ago I found it. I saw it peaking through the leaves and knew that was the flower that my memories always associated with my grandma. My mom came out to see it (I didn't tell her what it meant to me, but she keeps a notebook of all the flowers she sees so she wanted to see it) and she said it's called Indian Pipe. It seems too difficult for me to grow at my house, but now that I know what it is I can more easily look for it and find it every summer, like we used to. Sorry that was pretty sappy!