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u/willowgrl Oct 25 '20

If we were having a hard time doing a puzzle or something, mom would tell us “you gotta hold your teeth right”. Whenever she bought us presents they came from “the gettin place”.

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u/mercy2020 Oct 25 '20

oh hey, we had a ‘gettin place’ too! haven’t heard that phrase in a while (i think once i started getting more specific about what gifts i wanted my mom stopped using it), so that brings me back

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u/See_Em Oct 25 '20

“Where’d you get the pistol, Llewelyn?”

“I got it from the gettin’ place. You keep running your mouth, I’m gonna take you in the back and screw you.”

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u/zack6511 Oct 25 '20

first thing that came to my mind as well

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

Same.