This guy I worked with told me his grandmother would send him out to find her a switch, and he would bring one back, and she would say, no I need a bigger one than that. So off he would go again, until he brought back one she was satisfied with. Then she would make him strip it of its leaves. Then he would get what was coming to him. He grew up to be an outstanding man.
Yes, his grandmother was also black like this grandmother.
If you were of Italian extraction and grew up in the 1950s in The Bronx, Mom would have taken the wooden spaghetti sauce (gravy) spoon to you. Dad wasn’t that gentle.
I think a lot of us will be going to jail soon.
What IS a “switch” anyway? I’ve heard that term used in connection with corporal punishment before but I’ve never been able to figure out what it is!
I know it’s not an electrical switch of some kind. It seems to be some kind of vegetation. But if it’s a branch from a tree why not call it a branch?
Help! I’m confused....
Should have made the girl get the switch herself...................
Often told my Dad while he was alive that today he’d be doing life without parole :)
When my cousin’s kid threatened to call police if cousin spanked her, he said then be prepared to call the police twice; once when I spank you for lipping off and second for calling the police on me for spanking you.
Guess who won?
I have professionally dealt with multiple spanking/cops situations. Parents have to be ready to go to jail to discipline their children.
LOL! A flyswatter was usually within the reach of my grandmother who threatened, but never used it. My grandfather made us go get the switch. We took our time. :).
I sent this as a private reply to someone. I meant to make it public.
Johnny wants to be a builder
Did you hear about little Johnny? He is four years old. He was bugging Mother so she said, “Johnny, why don’t you go across the street and watch the builders work. Maybe you’ll learn something.”
Johnny was gone about 2 hours. When he came home his Mother asked him what he learned.
Johnny replied, “Well, first you put the ******* door up, then the son of a ***** doesn’t fit, so you have to take the **** sucker back down. Then you have to take a **** hair off each side and put the Mother ***** back up.
“Johnny’s Mother said, “you wait til your Dad comes home.”
When Johnny’s dad got home, mom told him to ask Johnny what he learned across the street.
Johnny told his dad the whole story.
Dad said, “Johnny, you go outside and get the switch.”
Johnny replied, “**** you, that’s the Electrician’s job.”
“Anyone here remember them switches? You used to have to go get off the tree yourself and take them leaves like that? I see them trees today, I will kill one of them m####f#####s, I will stop the car—say, ‘Wait, hold it!’ *Starts violently shaking the tree* You ain’t never gonna grow up! You won’t be beating nobody’s ass!”
-Richard Pryor
Lotta people really dote on the grandkids, but then it’s open season on generations after that.
Pretty dumb. I had to go cut the switch that my Mom would use. If there was no switch available, she’d use her shoe, or a 2x4 or any old thing that was handy.
Pretty easy to have welts when there’s a switch, but not as likely to do real damage - unlike the 2x4.
A dire need for Common Sense (Thomas Paine, 1776):SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.What we have here, precisely as with LBJ’s “Great” program, is exactly the conflation of “society” with government, distinctly to the the disadvantage of society.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . .
Cops are punishers, not patrons. It’s their job; they are unsuited for any other. You can try to swat flies with a hammer, but you are unlikely to do any good and are certain to fix something in the house that wasn’t broken before.