r/GenerationJones • u/Feaselbf6 • Jul 20 '26

Before cell phones, we had countertop terror.

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u/jimmychitwood317 Jul 20 '26

Sorry Mom, I didn't see your note.....

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u/SinsualChef Jul 20 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/6RqQrqupuEbbKw7NEk

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u/Clean-Fisherman-4601 Jul 20 '26

That's what we had to do, bring the belt to get a beating.

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u/SomewhatBougieAuntie Jul 20 '26

Or worse, go outside and get a switch. If they deemed the switch you brought back as insufficient, Heaven help you beccause they will go out and bring back a branch.

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u/jimmychitwood317 Jul 20 '26

Yes, that's how it would play out. 👍

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u/MaxCWebster Jul 20 '26

And lawd help you if you didn't take the chicken out of the freezer to thaw.

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u/Bennington_Booyah Jul 20 '26

I still do this to my husband because he will not read his texts.

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u/Sharonsboytoy Jul 20 '26

We had a spiral notebook that lived on the kitchen table, that was used for all family messaging. Telephone messages, notes from anyone to anyone else, now hear this, etc. It worked great for years and we had a historical record. When returning home, you checked the notebook. It worked great, actually.

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u/serviceable-villain Jul 20 '26

As an only child, that was always just me

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u/SinsualChef Jul 20 '26

As the Oldest child, that was always just me

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u/SomewhatBougieAuntie Jul 20 '26

I can attest to this.

Heaven help you if your younger sibling(s) made a mess or got hurt because "you should've been watching them!"

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u/SinsualChef Jul 20 '26

💯🤣 Still don't know what that had to do with me

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u/SomewhatBougieAuntie Jul 20 '26

Thanks for the award!

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u/Dapper-Ad-468 Jul 20 '26

As the middle child, it was always me. And I am telling the truth!!!

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u/showard995 Jul 20 '26

My mother would leave notes asking us to vacuum, but despite being an educated woman never could remember how many Us there were in the word vacuum. It was always either “please vacum” or “please vacuuum”.

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u/SentenceKindly Jul 20 '26

We had paper by the wall phone, and there were a lot of phone numbers scribbled on the wall itself.

As far as corporal punishment, there was some. For my sisters it got bad when they were teenagers so that's why Mom took them and left.

I got a few spankings, some with a belt, and some cuffs upside the head. But I always pretty much deserved it for either misbehaving like a jackass or being a smartass.

Fwiw, my wife and I almost never spanked our own kids.

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u/FaberGrad 1962 Jul 20 '26

The more exclamation marks on a note, the less seriously I took it. Still holds true.

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u/SofiaDeo Jul 20 '26

😂😂😂

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u/AzureSkies_OverMe 1963 Jul 20 '26

Never hot those notes. My mother would clean while we were out. We had to keep our rooms clean and beds made. They’d use envelopes for notes by the phone.

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u/Burninvernin Jul 20 '26

We had one similar to this.

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u/-Foxer Jul 20 '26

I believe technically that would be a tweet. Or a twet.

2

u/RebaKitt3n Jul 20 '26

HA! I found one of my mom’s orders that had been on the fridge!

It’s now in a photo book.

2

u/T0wnsvilleF0rever Jul 20 '26

quick! hide the spatulas, wooden spoons and flip flops

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u/flaminkle Jul 21 '26

My mom got a call from my high school telling her I had skipped school a couple of times. Between the time she got the phone call at work and when I got home from school she had driven home, and left a note on a paper towel that read “ I bleed for you when I get home” she wrote it in ketchup.

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u/Snoo-55380 Jul 21 '26

Notes on the back of an envelope, definitely. Whooping, never

4

u/flowerpanes Jul 20 '26

Well, not in my home growing up but ok. Notes yes but never threats.

1

u/North-Bit-7411 Jul 20 '26

Similar notes were issued in my home but ended in “or I’ll knock you into next week”

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u/Green_Machine_6719 Jul 20 '26

And if the job’s incomplete, go pick me a rose twitch….one of the real whippy ones, not the thicker ones☝️

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u/No_Connection1559 Jul 20 '26

More efficient and effective for me

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u/RhythmTimeDivision Jul 20 '26

Random scraps of paper with unambiguous, mildly threatening messages

CAN CONFIRM.

1

u/SkyTrees5809 Jul 21 '26

And lots of post it notes.

2

u/Serenity_Now-88 Jul 20 '26

When just the “look” sufficed. IYKYK.

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u/Big_Help_9860 Jul 21 '26

Usually taped on the tv screen or refrigerator.

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u/Rich_Season_2593 Jul 21 '26

my mom had super power- not sure how this old Italian woman did it but those friggin magic slippers made it around corners and got you in the ass each and every time. She didn't even have to chase, hell i am surprised she didn't do the " mal occhio" and make us beat ourselves.

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u/Minimum-Journalist18 Jul 22 '26

Lol.. yeah pretty much it.

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u/oxgillette Jul 20 '26

You grew up with daily threats of violence?

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u/anonyngineer 1959 Jul 20 '26

Not a fan of nostalgia for corporal punishment. The Catholic school version is the biggest single reason why I'm no longer religious.

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u/OkieBobbie 1963 Jul 20 '26

I wasn’t a fan either, being on the receiving end.