“You Didn’t Put Your Blinker On” Flags a Sudden Topic Change

Grant, you’ll recall that conversation we had with Scotty from Dallas, who was talking about the fact that in her family, if somebody suddenly changed the subject in a conversation, they would say Jack Roses, and nobody could figure out why, and we couldn’t either.

Yeah, yeah, we never did figure it out why. We had some theories, but they didn’t quite land.

Yeah, yeah, but it turns out that different people use different expressions. At that point in a conversation, we heard from Christy Golden in Abilene, Texas, who said, in my family, when the subject changes midstream, I say, you didn’t put your blinker on. Or blinker, please.

Oh, and blinker is one of those lovely terms that not everyone uses for turn signal. Lots of people have other terms for it.

Oh, that’s true. I didn’t even think about that.

Yeah, blinker. I grew up saying blinker, and people looked at me weird for a while when I said it at college.

Blinker.

Yeah, blinker. Yeah, I think I called it a blinker and then thought it was weird that people said taillight.

Taillight or indicator or turn signal. There’s others.

Yeah. Yeah, remember those old Mustangs where they had three different lights, and they would sort of go did-a-dit, did-a-dit, did-a-dit?

Oh, yeah, lots of new cars do that, left to right, right to left.

Yeah. Yeah, we called those did-a-dit cars.

Wow, that’s a path we’ve gone down. Well, we know that in your family, they say something else to change the conversation, or they have another word for the turn signal.

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