We’ve spoken before about “It’ll be better when you’re married,” often used to console someone who just had a small scrape or cut. A Chicago-area listener wrote us to say that in such cases, her mom’s phrase was “Quick, get a spoon!” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Quick, Get a Spoon!”
Remember when we were talking about things that are said to children to comfort them by making.
Them laugh if they fall down in skin and knee? You might say, oh, it’ll be better before you’re married or watch out, that’s going to turn into a pig’s foot by morning. And it just,
It takes their mind off the injury. Well, that prompted Nancy Davis to write. She lives outside of Chicago, and she shared this childhood memory. She said, if I had an injury that drew a small amount of blood, my mother would say, quick, get a spoon. She said it was very distracting.
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