What instruction did your mother tell you to do over and over and over again in your chilhood?
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Macy Havok
ANSWERS: 31
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clean my toe jam hahhahhaha
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"Here, wear this nice dress I bought you instead of those raggedy jeans and dinosaur tee shirt!"
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Two things actually: To quit "holding myself" (my penis - at a certain age some young males do that - I have grown out of it now) And To "Look BOTH ways before crossing the street."
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Look but don't touch. She repeated it until the words lost all meaning and they were just syllables coming out of her mouth.
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ALWAYS leave it in better condition than when you found it. If you shower, don't just clean up the water you spilled, but wipe down the sink as well. If you use dishes, wash a whole sinkful. If you borrow a car with 1/4 tank of gas, return it full and washed. I still live by this rule and I still teach it to my kids.
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To wipe going north to south. But you know, I've kind of gotten away from that more like a Northwest to Southeast.
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To never say "never."
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When seated & wearing a dress you always close your legs!! And, always hold on to your purse.
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Stand up straight. She has said that pretty much everyday for the past 20 years.
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to hold onto the cart when shopping...i still do it to this day which is annoying.
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Act like a lady. I never understood that until I got older and saw girls not acting like one.
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"Keep your elbows off the table", at dinner.
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Never speak to strangers Always be polite Too many to list my Mother was the best mannered Hippie in the world
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Never drink and drive and never get in the car with someone who'd been drinking. Just call, I'll pick you up, no questions asked. She was fine up until that last part :)
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Mangia! Mangia! Mangia! Translated: Eat! Eat! Eat!
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Use your common sense!! I had none. I still have none. :oP
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From the time I was a young girl and up until the last days of her life she was obsessed with her safety deposit box. She wanted to make sure that when she died, I would go there immediately and take everything out of it. She took me to the bank when I was 8 years old to show me how the safety deposit box was accessed, where it was, and so forth. She told me to get a relative to help me.
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somersaults.
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"Use a fork" "Stop eating with your fingers" "drink your milk"
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Sit up straight. Brush your hair. Brush your teeth. Don't sit so close to the TV.
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clean up my toys, books, homework, whatever i was working on or using at the time .... i wasn't supposed to have more than one thing out at a time
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Make sure you clean behind your ears.
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Wash your hands
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Don't interrupt
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No phone no door when i am not home!
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why can't you be like your sister.
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'What you want and what you get are two different things.' 'If you ask, you don't get,' and in complete conflict with that, 'If you don't ask, you don't get.'
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say thank you, be good and stop being your own worse enemy
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Never talk to strangers...even though that is what I am doing here.
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1) don't drink out of the carton of milk 2) wash your hands after using the bathroom 3) avoid women named Maude 4) love as if your life depended on it 5) I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it.
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"Put your shoulders back" and "Go run a brush through your hair". Odd, in retrospect, that she always used the passive voice in her instructions -- it was'nt "brush your hair" or "put on lipstick", but "run a brush through your hair" or "put some color on your lips". Now there's an interesting linguistic study for someone!
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