Hardly anyone posts on our ‘jokes for the caregiver’ thread anymore.
I find value in comic relief and enjoy a quirky sense of humor!
Please share your favorite humorous ‘senior’ quotes. All other quotes are welcome too, something meaningful or inspirational for all of us to read.
Us kids used to get the 'there's children starving in Africa who wish they had that food' when we'd question the cuisine, and that cuisine was questionable. My mother was not a good cook. One time my brother who was probably 10 or 11 years old told out mother that he'd send the pork chops to the poor kids in Africa but he didn't want to cause an international incident. He was a funny guy, my brother. If I had said that when I was a kid I would get slapped and sent to bed with no supper. I'm still getting a laugh from it all these years later.
It went right over my head when I was little but I figured it out when I got older. There is so much truth to what he said.
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My parents never did the starving speeches, but the nuns at my school did! This is why I ate my peanut butter and jelly sandwich everyday!
Oh, those metal lunch boxes were so cute, but I did break a few thermos bottles in my day! They were lined with glass and shattered horribly when dropped!
I told my father the starving can have all the Lima beans ,
I’ll eat the broccoli .
"Eat a little bit of everything and everything on your plate."
Then of course there was Mary Ann and I getting caught smoking in Owl Horner's barn.
My Dad: "Owl was afraid you girls would get burned in a fire! Why would you do such a thing, kid?"
Me: "I was bored".
Dad: "Oh well. I guess it is time to learn what bored really looks like".
Right. No saddle club, no running around on horse, no visiting friends. That was one tough week!
I gotta say, my parents were always kind and fair.
That's an old classic, children should be seen and not heard. I have similar feeling about most elders in society. Most of the ones I know shouldn't be seen or heard.
Not saying that this applies to all, especially Mick Jagger and Liam Neeson.
Should read that I nearly spit out my coffee. I swear that my autocorrect is hexed! 😝
Geeeeez!
I nearly spit out my reading this. Oh my gosh! Your mom was something else!
Burnt,
Yep! Saying that we were bored was dangerous territory!
Way,
One of my grandpa’s sisters, always said that children should be seen and not heard.
She was never married. I don’t think she liked being around kids too much. She was engaged once but her fiancé was killed in the war.
“Children should be seen and not heard .”
Some of the things they said were so wrong .
I also remember my sister complaining she was bored and my mother threatened to send her to school ( on Saturday ). SMH .
Then we got in trouble for crossing the 6 lane highway without the crossing guard. Adults just confuse kids sometimes. Sheesh!
I am so laughing at the 'give you something to cry about' my father said that all the time. We NEVER said we were bored around here. Kids back in the day knew better LOL.
I think a lot of kids have heard that one! 😝
Or if we said that we were bored, then they said that they would give us something to do! Like clean up our room!
That one is classic! 😝