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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsNot real sure exactly what "conniption fits" are, but I must be a carrier. My mother used to say
that I gave her them!
irisblue
(32,982 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)"apoplectic"
sarge43
(28,941 posts)An expression similar to the one wild animals get just before they eat their young.
A milder form of the condition is the hizzy fit. The more extreme condition, the shit fit, is most often seen in fathers.
Most mothers will suffer from the condition, becoming most acute during their children's teenage years.
Warpy
(111,277 posts)My mother, who hailed from New York, called it a shit hemmorhage.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Christopher Lee's!
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Which I thought was a store where you could buy implements to torture your children with.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)"Conniptions Five and Dime"
Skittles
(153,169 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)the vapors!
irisblue
(32,982 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)at least according to our mother.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)"keep it up, and I'll give you something to cry about!"
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)I think in those days parents got a handbook of useful phrases when they took a new baby home.
Like these:
"Don't make me pull this car over...!"
"The starving children in India would be happy to have those lima beans!"
"Stop making those faces or your face will get stuck that way."
"Because I'm your mother and I said so."
"If all your friends jumped off a cliff would you do it too?"
"Don't slam the door!!!" (Grandma's favorite)
KT2000
(20,584 posts)I remember all of those.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)"I pray when you grow up and have children, they're all just like you."
Probably why I never had kids. A mother's curse is serious shit.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)belt slipping through his trouser loops!
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)I had had enough of their criticisms of my driving and pulled over on the hill we were going up, got out and sat in the back seat.
My sister killed the engine twice (manual transmission) before we got going again.
I kept my mouth shut, even though she proved my point that she could not do it better.
LeftInTX
(25,383 posts)I heard them all but didn't use them, with the exception of one:
I would threaten to pull the car over and follow up on the threat.
Then, I would get out of the car and stand there while my kids fought in 100 plus degree weather
After a few minutes they could calm down.
So, I would start driving.
They would start fighting again.
I would pull the car over. (Lather rinse repeat)
The kids tease me to this day.
I still can't figure out why they kept fighting in such gawd awful weather.
They think the whole ordeal was funny.
rurallib
(62,423 posts)and he did it a couple of times. Jesus that hurt.
KT2000
(20,584 posts)My Mom had some more but I'm afraid to post them because I never knew what they really meant - could be awful. Ever hear of diabeastabunction??
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Sounds serious!
KT2000
(20,584 posts)that was beyond conniptions
Archae
(46,337 posts)What the heck is that, anyway?
lastlib
(23,248 posts)LeftInTX
(25,383 posts)but seeing the comments on this thread, I guess it non-geographical specific
One of my husband's coworkers (a true Texas gal) would accuse someone of having a "Wild hair up their butt".
lastlib
(23,248 posts)(o'course, Ah could be wrong.....)
That's a nastier version of the "ants in your pants" affliction, I think.....
LeftInTX
(25,383 posts)All these years, I thought it was a hair.
For years I envisioned this worm like hair....going up someone's.....yep, for 30 years this is what I thought....
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Assholery on steroids I think
Kali
(55,014 posts)ever try to extract a loose stray long hair from that slightly sensitive area?
lastlib
(23,248 posts)...but I'll stand with what I said above...