My grandmother said, “The time for tarts are when they’re passing.” She meant “take what’s offered when its offered,” but I want it printed on the programs at my funeral
But, will there be tarts?
I don’t mean to besmirch the original commenter’s honour, but I read it as the tart will be in the coffin, having passed.
Exactly!
I was just trying to get an invite. 🤪
My grandpa whenever we scraped our knee or something: “You’ll grow new bark”
“How are you ever gonna keep a job if you can’t keep juice in a cup?!”
I was 9 years old
Brutal 🤣🤌🏼
“Putang ina.” (“Son of a whore”)
They said this charming Filipino phrase whenever I did something stupid. So, often enough to count as a catchphrase.
When my grandmother met my now wife, who is from Alabama, my grandmother told her “well, we all have to be from somewhere”
That to me sounds like a very northern state phrase. I can absolutely hear my grandma saying that (not saying you/they are, just made me smile thinking of that)
As someone who’s family is from Alabama, I hard agree with your grandma. Where was she from? And can I steal her line?
My grandma was from the Midwest, mostly South Dakota. My grandma was very sweet and so it really cracked us up when she said that.
“Save every five minutes and never buy Packard Bell.”
“Who just shit my pants?”
From my grandmother: “Essen! Essen!” (Eat! Eat!) Followed quickly by “You need to lose weight! You’re getting fat!”
Do we have the same grandma.
I don’t know about ‘iconic’ but I once heard my grandpa say “I’d eat 5 feet of her shit just to see where it came from.” and that mental scar will probably stay with me the rest of my life.
Is this a military thing? One of the characters in Generation Kill says this in the first episode.
Possibly? I think he might of been in the military but I’ve never heard him talk about it.
Me too…
From my grandma, Est la Fromage, such is cheese, sometimes it’s sweet, sometimes it’s bitter, sometimes it stinks like Limburger.
Whenever we got a minor injury like on our knee, he would tell us “I can hurt the other one so you can’t tell which hurts more”
When we would go fishing, he always ended up sitting on a “barking spider”
The one I borrowed from him to great effect is “beer has water in it” whenever he was told to drink water
My grandfather gave me three options when I was young and slightly hurt. “I can hurt the other one, amputate the one that hurts, or you can go to bed.”
My grandfather was always “fair to middlin’”
My mom too on the pants. 🙂
My Pop, whenever he was asked where something was: “It’s in Annie’s room, behind the clock.” There was no Annie in our family, nor a bedroom with a clock you could put things behind.
Also my Pop whenever asked what something was: “It’s a wig-wam for a goose’s bridle.”
These may not be iconic to anyone else, but they are sure as hell iconic in family lore, and us grand-kids are making sure we pass it down as much as we can.
My grandmother used to say: if you expect your good deed to be reciprocated, you’re not actually doing a good deed.
She said it in dutch, so I hope it’s an decent translation.
I’ve heard this one put similarly: “If you’re looking for something in return, even your good deeds are an extension of your selfishness.”
