Mom’s favorite threat when I was a kid: “I’m gonna take my shoe off!” LOL!
My mom, a genuine WV hillbilly, would just set her eye on you and say,
"Go cut me a switch!"
Your mom was a shoe-thrower too? Mine used the OLD Dr. Scholl’s -— the ones made of solid wood, and she had (and has, I assure my own children) a wicked fastball. My brother and I got real good at ducking and running.
Regards,
I just hope it wasn’t one with a spiked heel! In the 1950s when I was four, Mom washed my mouth out with Ivory soap because I’d uttered a curse word. Even the NEIGHBOR spanked me and returned me to my parents when I refused to stop sitting in the middle of the street. I’ve danced to the belt or switch many a time. But I thank God for parents who nipped my rebelliousness in the bud. Their discipline worked beautifully—it broke my will but not my spirit. And as a teenager, I was popped in the mouth a few times for disrespect to my mom. She said, “I don’t care if you’re twenty-five! You’ll not talk to me that way!” By the way, I’m 58 and I STILL do not mouth off to my mother.
Most parents from the 1950s would have been dragged before some judge or body that would declare them unfit and then remove their little angelic darlings from the home for undergoing such “brutal” treatment. I see so many people today who should’ve had their rear ends tanned as a kid.
Same old thong....
You had one of those "Shoe Throwing Moms" Eddie Murphy talked about. "Hey baby, wait a minute I hear something....*sound of shoe flying through the air*.....AAAAAAGH!..........*shoe flies back to Mom*....ok baby let's go!"