Maybe that was just as well Ele. Maybe you dodged a bullet. I see movies with boys calling their dads "SIR" and it always unnerves me. They do that because the fathers TERRIFY them. Being TERRIFIED of a parent is never a good thing methinks. Thank you for your reply and Happy Thursday! :)
When I was shipped off to FL as a young lad, Sir and Ma'am were the norm. I learned the hard way with a thump on the cheek and a lecture from my Aunt. It was one of the best things she did for me. I still often use them with strangers.
If you SIR and M'AM strangers that's quite normal to me. But family? I dunno Ele. I never called my father SIR or my mom M'AM. It just seems so stiffly formal and uncaring. Cold. Distant. Aloof. Thank you for your reply and Happy Saturday! :)
Me too neither D. I think my dad would be hurt. I mean all I ever called him was "daddy" so to "sir" him would be unthinkable. I had great respect for him and always will but calling him sir? Not my cuppa tea. Thank you for your reply D! :)
He answered to all of them D? You certainly gave him a lot of variety. Maybe I should have asked my father what he would have preferred me to call him. But it never occurred to me to do that. Thank you for your reply. Ever call him pater, pop,poppy,padre?
Pater ,yes...but not the others.....we were all the cheekiest kids ever......more so I'm told when I began to talk.....I seemed to delight in being chased by them...:)
Cheeky? Thee? Huh. I always think of that word in combination with twit as in "cheeky twit" and you certainly are not that! Maybe cheeky comes in various iterations and you were/are the nicest one. You called your father Pater? Didja ever call your mum "Mater"? Inquiring minds wanna know these things! Thank you for your reply D! :)
Jeff Foxworthy "redneck" Shuhak? Didja ever eat "roadkill" or is that not redneck just hillbilly? Just thought of a question I'm gonna ask. Thank you for your reply and Happy Saturday! :)
Is Foxworthy not your cuppa tea then? I thought he was very funny Shuhak. I s'pose if I ask what squirrel tastes like you're gonna say "it tastes like chicken" right? Thank you for your reply. So did you ever kill a squirrel then? Was your family a hunting-for-food family?
Oh, I loved Foxworthy. Exceptionally funny!! I never got to eat a squirrel and my mom was appalled by hunting. You see, my mom was wa "city girl" although her dad was quite "hillbilly" (came from Mudlick Kentucky). My dad was country, but his dad died when he was 8. After that his mom took to carousing, leaving him to take care of his siblings al by himself (he never got past the 8th grade). To do that he learned to live off the land (so to speak) until he was drafted. So I was raised with hillbillyish history on one side (but with some sophistication) and country lifestyle on the other. Roadkill, squirrel, possum, raccoon were all forbidden by mom. She wouldn't even allow venison in the house (something about being Bambi). My dad just rolled his eyes and obliged. However, mom made most of our clothes.
You have a very colorful family history and are obviously well-rounded (figuratively.) I tasted venison once long ago as a child and it was very gamey. I don't see how anyone could eat it so your mom saved you from an unpleasant memory. It was also very tough. Now maybe there is a way to cook it so there is no gamey taste and it is tender. We were guests at someone's home so I don't know what method of cooking was used but they seemed very proud to serve it so I guess to them it was a delicacy. No accounting for taste...Literally! The name " Mudlick" tickles me. It resonates with me so maybe somewhere within there is some hillbilly in me too! Thank you for your reply Shuhak! :)
No---to me that implies distance. Like if you don't know whether a guy is just another a**hole or a saint and you don't know him sell enough to call him by his name.
For it means the person has some authority over me. Some power. Some control. It is very stiff/formal. Thank you for your reply tom and Happy Saturday! :)
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