I was thinking about how adults say things they don’t mean, and how they confuse little kids…
Many moons ago, when I was about five or six years old (beds were made with sheets and blankets; my grandmother still had all her marbles; and the Model T was still in production) my grandmother came up to tuck me in to bed.
As part of the tucking in process, she pulled the blankets up said “you’ll catch your death if you don’t have your shoulders covered”.
I spent the next few years terrified to go to sleep, certain in the knowledge that I’d die if my ‘soldjers’ weren’t always covered…
Tags: amusing, family, stupid people
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