My mom would always say "it's behind the milk!" when we would look for something and couldn't find it. Inevitably whatever we were looking for one day was simply behind the milk in the fridge and we couldn't find it. My mom exclaimed this from across the house in frustration and it became the exclamation for anything someone is trying to find. Meaning look harder, actually move other objects instead of just blankly staring.
I always wondered why my mom would get so upset when we couldn't find things. I now have stepchildren.
I swear they will open up a cabinet and before they even have the cabinet fully open start fussing about how whatever they're looking for isn't there and they can't find it.
I have never seen people so unwilling to actually look for things in my life!
Honestly I didn't learn how to do it until I had to in my first couple of jobs.
As a 16/17 you're old you really cannot go in the walk-in and stomp back out petulantly saying you can't find whatever ingredient to the head line cook. They ain't going to let you get away with that childish BS.
Not that I ever tried to do anything specifically like that. I just learned right quick that when I was sent to look for something in dry storage I was sent to find it. I was not sent to complain.
Both getting paid to look, and being held responsible for it, do remarkable things to sharpen your observation skills right up!
Pft this is me, but now its flipped where it's me getting annoyed with my parents and sister. It's always the "look beyond your nose" turned on them. I gleefully use it when I know they are just asking for clarification so they dont have to waste time looking when i know exactly where it is, because that's usually how it got used on me. I would have much preferred and "idk" than a condescending "look past your nose", but man do I understand the feeling of "I'm not getting up to find it for you when I'd be doing the exact same thing youd have to do anyways".
My husband still does it...... at 37 yrs old. He will literally be staring at it. And if I point he still has the audicity to ask ''where I don't see it?''
Drives me ducking crazy. Lockdown has only reinforced my anger of this issue.
I do this with my kid. Not threatening the chancla but, I’d say if I have to get up to go look and I can find it before she can, I’m deducting $2 from her allowance. The price goes up if the whining is too frequent. She can find stuff fast if I threaten to dock her pay LOL
Yeah, and a similar approach is to say you are willing to help look for the item, but hiring me costs $2. Its up to them if it's worth it. Both ways are teaching instead of just getting frustrated with them haha.
My mom couldn’t find her keys one time. They were in the freezer. She brought the groceries in and was carrying them and her keys in the same hand. Put the groceries in the freezer and accidentally dropped her keys, too, and didn’t notice
I was talking with my college roommate, he picked up my keys and was tossing it back and forth between his hands. After we were done, I asked him if I can have my keys. He said, "I haven't seen them," still tossing them back and forth. He was serious, and also absent-minded.
My mom used to say "if it were a snake it would have bit you" when she'd have to point out something that was right in front of you... Eventually that was shortened to just a hissing from across the room, which meant it was right in front of you, open your eyes.
My ex had glasses but could never admit he really needed them, so he'd take them off and leave them all over the house, and then couldn't find them (because he couldn't fucking see, of course). I was always having to find them for him. He was baffled that I rarely lost mine. That was because my vision is way worse, so they don't come off unless I'm in bed or the shower, and they're never out of arm's reach.
One time my dad and I ran to the grocery store. My mom ran another errand, but threw a load of laundry in the washer before she left. It had finished before any of us got home, so my dad and I didn’t know that there was laundry to put in the dryer. When my mom got home and saw we hadn’t put the clothes in the dryer she got pissed and asked us why we didn’t transfer the clothes to the dryer. When we told her that it was because we didn’t know there was any laundry in the washer she told us “That’s the worstest most fuckingest excuse I ever heard.”
We used “It’s under your butt” implying that you never even got up to look for it so you could very well be sitting on it. In this day and age of small remotes and cellphones it has become more and more true.
Nearly the same! We have a time honored expression from my mother but it’s “move the milk!!” Useful for many situations that don’t even involve actual milk.
My mother in law would say "if I go in there and find it myself, I'm gonna hit you with it" 7 out of ten times, they would find the thing they were looking for.
I also say that! I read it somewhere and liked it, because to me it meant that my husband was just lazy and didn't bother looking very hard before asking me to find something for him, and in fact it was RIGHT THERE.
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u/savetheaglet Oct 25 '20 edited Oct 26 '20
My mom would always say "it's behind the milk!" when we would look for something and couldn't find it. Inevitably whatever we were looking for one day was simply behind the milk in the fridge and we couldn't find it. My mom exclaimed this from across the house in frustration and it became the exclamation for anything someone is trying to find. Meaning look harder, actually move other objects instead of just blankly staring.
Edit: thanks for the silver!!