Due to this and that unfortunate circumstance, including divorce and disagreements among the grownups, I didn’t get to grow up in close contact with my mother’s birth mother, Lily Green Leister. Mom’s stepmother was Grandma to me, and all I could have wished for in that role. But my birth Grandma was very much present to me in the things she taught Mom and in the all-too-brief contacts we had.
Here’s one thing she used to say that Mom passed on to aid in my education.
If I would say, as everybody at school did, “Where’s it at?” Mom would tell me that Grandma (Lily) would have said,
I stopped saying, “Where’s it at,” at a very young age.
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A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: Write about a legacy from someone not known personally nearly enough.
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Roy A Ackerman, PhD, EA
June 5, 2019 at 8:40amShort and sweet!
Marian Allen
June 5, 2019 at 4:50pmShort and sweet and, eventually, effective. 🙂
Dan antion
June 5, 2019 at 10:03amMy father always said a version of that to me. It helped break that habit.
Marian Allen
June 5, 2019 at 4:51pmGrownups. If good advice doesn’t work, irritate your children into compliance. ~grin~
Mitchell Allen
June 6, 2019 at 7:16amI can relate. My 84 year-old dad still hits me with those zingers. The main one, which I have resisted as unpalatable, involves whom/who. I have no idea of, and no interest in, the proper usage of the former. It’s too much like having to know which fork to use at a fancy dinner.
Cheers,
Mitch
Marian Allen
June 6, 2019 at 9:20amI’ve heard people who use proper grammar as if it’s natural, and it’s charming. Most of us, though, commit many “gaffes”, accidentally or deliberately. It drives me NUTS when somebody says, “He told Mary and I” instead of, “He told Mary and me.” On the other hand, I agree with Winston Churchill about DON’T END SENTENCES WITH A PREPOSITION: That is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.
Mitchell Allen
June 6, 2019 at 7:05pmI laughed out loud at that. It’s one thing to be irritated and quite another to be intolerant. I couldn’t care less about correcting someone who says, “I could care less…” After all, who am I to assume that the speaker hasn’t ranked the subject at the bottom of things he or she worries about?
(OOOPS!) LOL
Cheers,
Mitch
Marian Allen
June 8, 2019 at 12:28pm😀
joey
June 22, 2019 at 12:01pmFunny!
It’s very regional, how everyone asks, “Where you at?” instead of “Where are you?” Bet you knowed that.
Marian Allen
June 23, 2019 at 7:50amI knowed that, and I be sayin’ that. 😀