Most of the kids that grew up around the same time as I did all were pretty much told the same old cliches by their mothers. They seemed to have one for every occasion when they wanted to alter your behavior. The one that I have most often compared notes over and had the most laughs about is "make sure you have on clean underwear,I would die if you were in an accident with dirty underwear". There are so many things wrong with that saying it is hard to decide where to start! First of all I am hoping it was only a ploy to teach the children good hygiene,but the earnestness with which it was delivered makes that a bit hard to believe. On to the statement itself...they would die if you were in an accident?? Wait a minute,how would they be the one in physical danger if the child was the one in the accident? I suppose they could be going for the death by broken heart story,but in real life that seldom happens,and shouldn't the main concern have been whether the child was seriously injured,not the state of their underwear? Second and maybe the most laughable of the things wrong about the situation is that chances are if you were in an accident you would in turn soil your underwear so they would no longer be clean even if they had started the day in pristine condition! Of course mothers in days gone by had a entirely different set of worries than the mothers of today,but that is a different story for a different day.
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