Did your dad ever say any of these things?

[True Dough]

Or any other variations? My dad was a "hit the road" kind of guy.

[Skittles]

1. no

but as a GI brat who frequently moved I did hear PACK UP AND STOP WHINING a few times

[Irish_Dem]

6. My dad was career Air Force and he always told us kids to straighten up and fly right.

We jumped when he said that.... he was not kidding around.

Hi brat!! Same here.

[Skittles]

14. heh

I'm a USAF brat and vet......I heard and saw a lot

[Irish_Dem]

16. A lot of the things our dads said cannot be repeated in polite company.

The USAF is the best branch of the military!

[Skittles]

17. honestly, things were very different back then

I remember just getting the LOOK was enough for me to promptly modify my behavior

[Irish_Dem]

19. Oh god, you got that right. nt

[sprinkleeninow]

22. I also got 'the look' with no spoken words.

[TomSlick]

25. I'm retired Army. My let's go has always been "Boots and Saddles."

I doubt my son ever knew this was an old cavalry bugle call. He just knew it meant it's time to go.

[Irish_Dem]

26. I wonder what the navy dads told their kids?

Never heard the Army saying, old cavalry call, interesting.

[TomSlick]

27. The bugle call meant to put on your boots and saddle your horse - we're moving out.

Next time you hear it in an old movie, you'll know what it means.

[Irish_Dem]

28. Right, a familiar bugle call in movies. Never knew the intent and history.

The Air Force is a newer service than the Army, so nothing going back in time
like the Army.

Come to think of it, in the beginning of my Dad's career, he was Army-Air Force.
Not very long, I guess the bugle call did not enter his world view.
He was a tail gunner in a tin can doing the Burma Hump. So there were no horses and saddle talk!

[TomSlick]

31. Given that your father was an Army Air Corps combat veteran,

I will refrain from my predictable cracks about the Air Force.

[Irish_Dem]

34. I guess I will refrain comments about soldiers on horses.

You can imagine what the Air Force thought about that.


Edit to add: Our world was fighter jets, reconnaissance planes, air refuelers, test pilots,
astronauts, etc.

Our dads were always in the air, not on the ground.

[Skittles]

50. heh

a Marine at work made a crack about USAF; I told him, I liked dating Marines.....they weren't too smart and they take orders really well. He turned purple. Didn't like stereotyping thrown right back at him.

[Totally Tunsie]

33. Dad was Navy.

Time to ship out" was heard in our house.

[Irish_Dem]

35. Of course. :). nt

[panader0]

41. Same here. Career AF. Plus "Get out of left field and start pitching."

I never knew him until I was three because he was in Korea.
He did 50 combat missions in WWII.

[Irish_Dem]

42. I didn't know my dad until I was about 2yrs old because he was in Korea.

The story is that when I was born, someone ran out to the runway to his plane and said he was the father of a
baby girl, and then they taxied for take off. For some reason that story has always stayed with me.

My dad flew many combat missions in WWII, Korea and Viet Nam.

[panader0]

43. I remember my dad coming off the plane at Travis AFB,

and after hugging my mom he picked me up (3) and he hadn't shaved in a few days.
His face was rough. I didn't know who he was except my mom and her bridge buddies called him Jess.
I called him Jess more than dad.

[Irish_Dem]

44. Yes when he was stationed away for long periods of time, it was hard to deal with him coming back.

We didn't know this stranger.

My parents met at Travis AFB and were married there.

[panader0]

45. Our parents may have known each other.

[Irish_Dem]

46. I will send you a PM.

[choie]

2. my pop was a "let's get this show on the road"

kinda guy

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Mine, too.

[ret5hd]

3. Mine was more of a...

"Get yer ass in the car! Now!" kinda guy.

(not really, he was very kind)

[Irish_Dem]

7. I say these things all the time. ;)

[BusyBeingBest]

8. My dad would just bellow, "Let's GOOOOOOOO!!!"

And sit in the driveway and honk. (still does this)

[iemitsu]

9. Off like a herd of turtles.

[flor-de-jasmim]

10. Mine would say: "Dear, did you turn off the iron?" My mom would say she hadn't used it in years.

He'd add: "Yeah, but did you turn it off the last time you used it?"

[RoadRunner]

11. Mine just said

"Money doesn’t grow on trees".

Mama always said "we have two menu choices tonight - take it or leave it"

God I miss them.

[Under The Radar]

12. We knew what his raised eyebrow meant. No words were needed

[targetpractice]

13. "Let's get out of this fire trap"...

Whenever he was ready to leave a restaurant.

[elleng]

15. Let's get this show on the road!

OK, Dad, let's GO!!!

[Ferrets are Cool]

18. Nope

The only thing I remember him saying was, "You must be ready for an ass whippin'".

Yes, I'm 64 and it took me till I was 35 years old and lots of counseling to get over the beatings and mental torture.


So, YES, I wish very much my father had said ANY of those things.

Point is, If your dad ever said ONE of those things, be very thankful, and if he is still alive, call him up and tell him you love him.

[3catwoman3]

20. Let's get this show on the road would be the only one...

...from the list.

Also the “Straighten up and fly right.” He was not career military.

If we got even the least bit rowdy, “Simmer down, simmer down.” Both my parents had very little tolerance for children daring to stray even a centimeter from their dictums.

[smirkymonkey]

29. Same here, that was the only one I remember him saying.

It was usually my mother that was rounding us up. My dad was the more laid back of the two.

[sprinkleeninow]

21. Navyman daughter here. Don't remember him saying those.

He did say' toe the line' sometimes and 'less talk and more action'. Me and momma. He also chided us about the exorbitant bath tissue use. We were extravagant. 😆

[NRaleighLiberal]

23. mine said "you're cruisin' for a bruisin'" among other things...

[Lady Freedom Returns]

24. You don't want to know what my "father" said.

[blaze]

30. Anybody need to go to the bathroom?

Are you sure you don't need to go to the bathroom?

Why don't you go upstairs and try before we go.

[denbot]

32. I've said more of those than my 84y.o. Dad.

Oy!

[Wawannabe]

36. Oh dude

The things my dad said aren't printable!
May he Rest In Peace

[Harker]

37. No...

I remember "beat it" and "get the hell out of here."

To his credit, he did call me "fuckhead" once.

He was born in 1928.

[Rhiannon12866]

49. So was my Dad!

And the extent of my Dad's swearing was "Jesus Christ," "Dammit" or "Hell." I once accidentally said "s***" in front of him and my grandmother and expected all hell to break loose, but nobody said a thing.

[Harker]

51. ...

[bluecollar2]

38. Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted..

My father was British Army...

I joined the U.S. Navy...

[Mad_Dem_X]

39. My dad had so many unique sayings

that one Christmas, my sister and I made a list and read it to him. We called them "Dadisms." He got such a kick out it.

[sakabatou]

40. Yup

[Captain Zero]

47. "You better straighten up and fly right."

When we needed to quit horsing around.

[trackfan]

48. No. The only expression he used that meant sort of the same thing was "sciammaninn'",

pronounced shah-ma-NEEN. Which is a southern Italian dialect word for, "let's go".

[tblue37]

52. No.

[Wicked Blue]

53. Mine said stuff like "Shut up"

"Shut up goddamit"
"Shut up or I'll get the belt"
"Goddamit"

and a variety of curse words in several European languages.

[JanMichael]

54. No. Just go pee because we'll be in the car for 3. 4, 5, 6, 9, hours. No breaks.

The midwest....