Hell, when I was a kid,k I used to pick up gum off the sidewalk and chew it.......(especially if it was pink). My mother caught me once...and from then on, when I asked for a penny for gum...I got it!
This is also perhaps why I am as healthy as I am...from an EARLY age, I ate dirt, germs, and other disgusting crap to build up my immunity ;-)
Never did anything like that, but my mom used to say, “Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about.”
I knew that meant the belt ormswitch, so I would do that reverse cry where you sob while inhaling and try to put the crying emergency brakes on hard.
That is, until the one day she said, “Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about, “ and I replied, “I already have something to cry about. “
She fell out of the car laughing, and never said that phrase again.
This thread is too much fun!