Things you were told as a young girl

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"Keep your elbows off the table... this is not a horse's stable."

Along with occasional grumblings about sending me to charm school, which I assumed was the female version of military school.

If I left the door open, my dad would call me an Arab. That's not right...

lol that's kind of prostitution on retainer! I was told the opposite: "Don't get married until you have a well-paying career. You don't want to depend on a man for your income". Pretty good advice I would say.

My mum told me never to get a joint account and to keep finances separate. That's sounds pretty sensible so I'm going to take notice.

I also got the crusts/curly hair thing, and told if I didn't get to bed before midnight I'd turn into a pumpkin!

I will never figure out why people think curly hair is such a great thing... To me it just seems like something that would take so much more maintainence than straight hair.

Yeah, exactly. We also had the underpants gnomes (which is why your socks or pants went missing LOL) and "don't pick your nose, your eyes will fall out!"

You are quite correct.

I have very, very curly hair. (Flatirons and Straightening Chemicals do nothing to it, in fact.)
It's alot of work to keep it nice and healthy and get all the tangles out. It dries out and becomes damaged very quickly.
I cannot use the "African" hair products because those were meant for really woolly, kinky hair. Those products are very greasy and completely unsuitable for my Biracial hair.

Mine is just very curly, like springs. But it's hard to find regular hair products as well, because most 'white' people want added volume. Therefore, most manufacturers make volumizing hair products. That is that last thing that my hair needs. It's too big! *sigh*

My hair is naturally wavy as I have been finding out while growing it out. Not sure about hair care just yet, still using fairly generic stuff. My hair is only 4.5" long so far, so, I am not too too worried about finding the right products just yet.

My mom always says, "Marry a man with a steady job, and a good head on his shoulders." oh and "Stick your stomach in..." to tighten the ab muscles.

I got the
"were you born in a tent?" when i left a door open.

omg that's mean Tweety_fan!! LOL

My dad told me drink milk in order to get big breasts when you get older. One of my teachers told me don't cross your legs while sitting or you'll get spider veins when you're older.

My stepmother always used to say, "Make the hair on your arms go the same way or people will talk about you."

It sticks in my mind because now I live in a place where if a woman doesn't wax her armhair, she's considered an ape.

Look people in the eyes when u are talking...
girls do not whistle...
elbows off table....
u do not interrupt adults when they are talking...
girls sit with their legs closed...
no talking with mouth full...
girls dont do this and that blablabla the list goes on and on....

things my dad told me (when no one was around):

-a woman's body is the most offensive thing in the eyes of god and men, this is why women are punished with sex

-if the pope dies and then the new pope dies, the world will "end" in the year 2000 (i spent the first 32 years of my life dreading midnight, 31 dec, 1999 until an epiphany came out of nowhere and i learned to think for myself).

-only nuns go to heaven

things the nuns told me:

-mary magdalene washed the feet of jesus, therefore, if you don't scrub your feet every night, you'll burn in hell

-abraham lincoln once went down a sewer to rescue a pig

-re: depictions of jesus in art - "jews don't have blue eyes, when have you ever seen a jew with blue eyes?" (actually, having grown up in a blue-collar, polish neighborhood, i'd never seen a jew, period)

-"i have more sense in my big toe than you have in your whole body"



..and then people wonder why i question authority so much.

Girls can't be Doctors but they can be nurses ect on the same vain. <-- bad from family over 60
Men should be avoided for your safety <----- very crazy great great aunt in her 90s
If you don't wear a bra all the time your boobs will hang down to your knees <-- mom
Marry a man you can stand to look at the rest of your life <-- mom
friends come and go but your sister is forever <-- mom when ever my younger sister did something to bug me