Showing posts with label roads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roads. Show all posts

Friday, July 19, 2013

Mom'isms

This list could probably use many additions, but here's what I can think of for now:

  • Upon getting up in the morning (sung) - "Good morning, Good morning, Good morning to you; Good morning, Good morning, and how do you do?"
  • For general annoyance of young children (hands together, with fingers folded under) - "Here is the church, here is steeple (forefingers up), open the doors (separate thumbs), see all the people (wiggle finger tips).
  • During bath time for very young Carroll boys (singing along with the floating tug boat) - "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine; You make me happy when skies are gray;  You'll never know dear how much I love you, So please don't take my sunshine away."
  • Upon arriving home (nursery rhyme) - "To market, to market, to buy a fat pig; home again, home again jiggety jig"
  • "goop" - any creamy, sticky or otherwise gelatinous substance
  • "rugbeater" - a 'wifebeater' as in undergarment
  • "Gross!"  - Bugs on the floor, walls or ceiling..... especially at night.

Also, when traveling about:
  • "The Avenue" - Wyoming Avenue i.e., Route 11
  • "The Back Road" - You know..... Shoemaker Ave. W Wyoming; Main St. Swoyersville, etc.
  • "The Bypass" - Pittston By-Pass
  • "Tuntel" - Tunnel along the turnpike between Allentown and Lehighton exits (so named when I was 2 years old living in Allentown and going to visit my grandparents in Wilkes-Barre)
  • "Turnpike" - The Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike
  • "East-West" - The regular Pennsylvania Turnpike 
  • "Blue Route" - Ah Ha !!!  I found a description of the Blue Route (the name actually was not invented by the Rivers family ) -->   I -476