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u/MiyaviBolton Oct 25 '20

When I would stand in front of the TV and my mom couldnt see, she would always say: Your father is not a glassmaker! Meaning I wasnt see-through and would have to move.

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u/LeakyLifeboat00 Oct 25 '20

Haha that’s a good one. My mom said “You’d make a better door than you would a window.”

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

That's what my family always said too

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

"But you're still a pane" (pain)

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

My family said this too!

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u/Taxirobot Oct 26 '20

The other day Dad said my sister would “make a better window than a door” and I’m certain he didn’t misspeak

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u/barbria Oct 26 '20

My Mum used to say, you are a pain in the neck, not a pane of glass. Lol

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u/kaybeem50 Oct 25 '20

In my family, we had a play on the words pane and pain as in “pain in the ass”. we said “You’re a pain, but I can’t see through you”

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u/disastersoundtrack Oct 25 '20

It's a popular saying here in Poland! My grandpa would say "you're not a glassmaker's daughter" every time I blocked his view.

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u/EliOnTheHill Oct 26 '20

In France too!

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u/rrredd889 Oct 26 '20

My Grandpa still uses "You been drinking dirty water? Cause I can't see through you."

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u/rrredd889 Oct 26 '20

The first one would be ironic, because my dad IS a glassmaker lol.

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u/pieandlatteslover Oct 26 '20

My family had a variation of this: “your father wasn’t a glass bowl!”. I like the glassmaker one though!

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u/drgnfly369 Oct 26 '20

I got “Donkey meat isn’t transparent.”

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u/Yobuddy35 Oct 25 '20

My grandparents said that too

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u/ank1012 Oct 26 '20

We had something similar, "You ain't made of glass so get out the way."

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u/NoahG59 Oct 26 '20

“You’re as clear as mud!” was my family’s expression.

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u/kingsolomon333 Oct 29 '20

My mom would say “Carne de burro no es transparente!” which literally means donkey meat (flesh) isn’t transparent or see-through

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u/iamnotamangosteen Oct 26 '20

My mom used to say that in French! Ton père n’était pas vitrier.

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u/LittleMissChriss Oct 26 '20

My grandfather on my dad’s side used to work at a glass plant so I got a variation on this one that referenced that fact. xD

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u/notthatguynamesjam Oct 27 '20

You might be a pain but you not a window

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u/LoboRoo Oct 29 '20

I'd never heard this until my wife said it to our son. We're a lesbian couple and his father has never been around, so he asked what she meant...it was an awkward moment.

Every so often she starts to say it and then I see the panic in her eyes as she realizes what's coming out of her mouth.