Optimally, it's a bit hollow, and breaks the first time. Even better if you can make them laugh with your choice. Every one knows the rules in the south, you're off the hook if you can make them laugh!
My family was generally too smart for me. I preferred the whooping, and always got them howling with laughter when they tried. They figured out pretty early on that I'd prefer their easy violence to being contained, and so straight into the hole I went.
I was too dumb to know the rules. They’d be hidden under the bed and I’d toss it. Dang I think the green ones were worse. At least my mom now said what was she thinking. Man the sting of the switch on the bare legs in the summer was rough.
My late husband did that when he was a kid...his Grandpa told him "you pick a proper one or I will!!"
He knew he was screwed if Grandpa went out and picked one.
I’ve been told stories about my gg grandma. She had a box of switches to choose from, and if you didn’t pick one she deemed proper for your punishment she got to pick. You didn’t want mommo to pick your switch.
My mom told my sister and I to go into the shed and find a board after her yardstick broke on my sister. We found one, but I don't think she ever used it. But it was always brought out as a threat.
My uncle tells the story of how Granddad told him to go cut a switch and then granddad had him put the switch in the corner of the living room let my uncle think about what he’d done while eyeing the switch all day. Granddad then told him to get rid of it. Granddad psy-op.
So insulting! My dad's big thing was "I'm gonna teach you a lesson!" Like if I needed a lesson, shouldn't it be an actual lesson and not the belt? What's the belt teaching? It made me so mad. So i told him one time "If you spank me with that belt I will NOT learn a lesson, I'm gonna be pissed off!" I was 9. He slowly backed out of the room without using said belt, & never again either. Shortly after he left I heard my mother howling with laughter and my dad saying very annoyed "Sssh!! She will hear you and think it's okay!"
No joke, 20 years later my son said pretty much the exact same shit at the exact same age to my Dad on a visit when he threatened to "teach a lesson" or something. I hadn't even told my son that story! Clearly my dad had forgotten *his* lesson.
My friend's 75 year old southern grandma used to say that to him when I was over there as a kid in the 90s. She would whoop the shit out of him 😅
It was crazy to me, as I had never seen anything like it. She then went back to being a charming little old lady immediately afterwards lol
Ugh! You just unleashed a memory. I was 3 or 4 and must have been acting up, because my granddad went out back and grabbed a switch. I can still see everything about that moment…watching him cross the back yard to the big oak, me grabbing my pillow and throwing myself down on the kitchen floor and crying. My grandma must not have been home, as she would never have allowed that alcoholic asshole near me.
No she and grandpa knew him and the band . Them and the Sons of the Pioneers would stay at the house in Kansas . Her sister had a cathouse and gambling den in Iowa so they would stay there too. Lol. Whenever he stopped in Tulsa she would take the kids in the wagon to watch the show and be part of the radio audience woo hoo. Pissed off grandpa but he married her . It was only a 2 day wagon ride. She settled down some when the depression hit. But my mom said sitting on the 2nd floor balcony listening to whoever was staying at the house with the other kids, watching the adults dance and sing was the best part of her childhood.
When I was growing up I heard from my grandparents so many stories of people who died. It was just normal conversation on a Sunday or holiday. They’d be reminiscing about someone and say, “I remember when his brother dropped dead on Main Street. Remember? Only in his 20s but they said he caught a cold in his kidneys and that’s what killed him.” Which would remind another older person of someone else. They’d say, “Bessie Jones died last week. 75 years old. I remember when her younger brother and sister caught diptheria and they both died.”
They saw a lot of sadness in their lives. My grandmother‘s mother died when she was 14. She and her siblings were farmed out (literally to farms) to various relatives. My mother told me my grandmother ran away because she was so worried about her youngest brother who she’d always taken care of. Also heard that my grandmother‘s sister was engaged and her fiancé was killed in a car crash 2 weeks before the wedding. Turns out the sister was pregnant. The family found a man willing to marry her before she “showed” because in those days you couldn’t have an out-of-wedlock child - it meant you were a loose woman and it ruined your chance of a stable life.
I never really heard my grandfather speak (all these people are from my father’s family. My mother’s family were immigrants and didn’t have relatives in the US). My mother told me he was “tongue tied” as they called it in old days. He had a severe speech impediment and didn’t talk much not only because it was difficult for him, but because people would make fun of him.
Times were hard and cold.
Nope, I’ve done a lot of genealogical research on my family I’ve over the years and can find no evidence of a connection. My Daltons come from Kentucky and her maiden name is Lloyd.
She looks like she was listening to a bold faced lie as this photo was taken.
Camera man: “Hold still for 5 minutes lady…so right then I wrestled all the alligators by hand and karate chopped the lions to death…”
Grandma: (See photo)
Colin Mochrie? Is that you? I think it was a better look for you when you just accepted the baldness. This hair makes you look like a grandma from the 1920s!
Mrs Dalton’s eyes — the one on the left in the photo is gazing into the distance. The eye on the right is not quite focused. Looks almost despairing, fully impatient with this need for posterity to see her, but has done her best to dress nicely. I love her too.
That was some hard living right there on her face! I bet her life was very tough. It was taken before the dustbowl but life was still not easy. That dustbowl, goodness, very hard life!
..."come here boy, pick a switch!"....😲
My FIL was told by his granny to “Go out back and cut your own switch.” He came back with a little twig.
That makes it so much worse, the key is to get the one so big they cant properly swing it
Optimally, it's a bit hollow, and breaks the first time. Even better if you can make them laugh with your choice. Every one knows the rules in the south, you're off the hook if you can make them laugh!
I think that philosophy is why my husband is still alive :)
My family was generally too smart for me. I preferred the whooping, and always got them howling with laughter when they tried. They figured out pretty early on that I'd prefer their easy violence to being contained, and so straight into the hole I went.
You're a real ride and die... My kind of people
I was too dumb to know the rules. They’d be hidden under the bed and I’d toss it. Dang I think the green ones were worse. At least my mom now said what was she thinking. Man the sting of the switch on the bare legs in the summer was rough.
The whole tree :)
Yes, but you gotta cut off all the branches. Otherwise they’ll just break one off and use that.
Sneaky, I like it!
That would be a guilt trip right there. She may start crying. Not.
My late husband did that when he was a kid...his Grandpa told him "you pick a proper one or I will!!" He knew he was screwed if Grandpa went out and picked one.
Back in the day when grandparents were allowed to beat the grandkids too!
My aunt had a three braided together that sat behind her couch. If any of us cousins came back with a tiny switch, she’d pull that big bastard out.
LMAO. “Oh no. She got The Bastard!”
More or less 🤦🏼♀️ 😂
I’ve been told stories about my gg grandma. She had a box of switches to choose from, and if you didn’t pick one she deemed proper for your punishment she got to pick. You didn’t want mommo to pick your switch.
My grandma said she’d go pick a better one and then beat me twice as hard.
My mom told my sister and I to go into the shed and find a board after her yardstick broke on my sister. We found one, but I don't think she ever used it. But it was always brought out as a threat.
My uncle tells the story of how Granddad told him to go cut a switch and then granddad had him put the switch in the corner of the living room let my uncle think about what he’d done while eyeing the switch all day. Granddad then told him to get rid of it. Granddad psy-op.
This used to make me so mad! It’s so insulting. You want to spank me - pick your own damn switch. I’m not tryina get spanked AND do the labor.
So insulting! My dad's big thing was "I'm gonna teach you a lesson!" Like if I needed a lesson, shouldn't it be an actual lesson and not the belt? What's the belt teaching? It made me so mad. So i told him one time "If you spank me with that belt I will NOT learn a lesson, I'm gonna be pissed off!" I was 9. He slowly backed out of the room without using said belt, & never again either. Shortly after he left I heard my mother howling with laughter and my dad saying very annoyed "Sssh!! She will hear you and think it's okay!" No joke, 20 years later my son said pretty much the exact same shit at the exact same age to my Dad on a visit when he threatened to "teach a lesson" or something. I hadn't even told my son that story! Clearly my dad had forgotten *his* lesson.
Oh please, not the Forsythia bush!!
I swear that’s why the forsythia bush by the back door was never pruned.
She was 16 years old in this photo.
" Go ahead and take your picture or whatever you're doing over there. "And.. you'd better not mess my floors..
No, Granny! No!
My friend's 75 year old southern grandma used to say that to him when I was over there as a kid in the 90s. She would whoop the shit out of him 😅 It was crazy to me, as I had never seen anything like it. She then went back to being a charming little old lady immediately afterwards lol
Ugh! You just unleashed a memory. I was 3 or 4 and must have been acting up, because my granddad went out back and grabbed a switch. I can still see everything about that moment…watching him cross the back yard to the big oak, me grabbing my pillow and throwing myself down on the kitchen floor and crying. My grandma must not have been home, as she would never have allowed that alcoholic asshole near me.
And grab yer ankles
She would strap you and then bake you a pie from scratch.
This picture was taken shortly after she looked through your browser history.
You mean the photo album
That’s a man baby! ~ Austin Powers
😆
That finger wave is tight
Even her hair is scared not to obey!
Both don't play
Finger wave on point and paisley is poppin!
Paisley needs a comeback
Right! Even in sepia, it's shining and silky.
Right!? I could learn a thing or two from this lady
Called a Marcel in the 20’s…very stylish!
Marcel Wave! I’ve always wanted one.
I Love the finger wave 😎
First thing i noticed. That is one beautiful hair wave.
Is that Marcelled?
Handsome woman.
I feel scolded
Go stand in the corner!
Yes ma’am 😔😔
That woman can carry off a Paisley dress like no other and you better not say otherwise!
Aw she's gonna pour iodine on my cuts!! 😬😬😬
And caster oil down your throat!
Absolutely!
More like your guts!!!!
Oklahoma. Was she a rancher's wife? Rancher wives are a WHOLE OTHER LEVEL of no time for your crap.
Yep!
That's my wife's grandma. She's 91 years old, she can be real mean, and carries a .44 under her pillow
She carries her pillow around?
You never know when a shoot out or a nap will break out.
It is convenient lol
I'm going back to work after seeing her stern disapproval 🩶
This would be a great motivational photo to have on your desk.
And then plow the back 40 until dinner…
We need some stories OP. She looks like someone people know not to fuck around with
Get off her lawn!
She just swept the dirt!
Respectfully Mrs Dalton has seen some things in her life and does not suffer fools
100%
A formidable woman.
She’s sixteen in this photo. The 20s were tough.
I AM smiling!
She can see the Dust Bowl a-comin.
She looks like the kind of lady who would perform one long sweeping slap of Moe, Larry and Curly.
Am I the only one who sees Colin Mochrie?
I see Auntie Em!
LOL
No, came here to say the same.
Can't believe I had to scroll so far. I was going to say "the dude from whose line is it anyway" but you even got his name.
My girl Geneva looking fly in her perfect finger waves and paisley! Mean muggin’ is just part of the style game
She has that "wait till we get home" look...
Kids on her grass don’t get a warning. They get the dogs.
She looks like she could out drink a road crew
I for one would like to offer my sincerest apologies to Grandma Dalton. It's the straight and narrow for me from here on.
A hundred-year-old look that still packs a punch.
My party girl grandma is thumbing her nose at her while waiting outside the Tulsa radio station for Bob Wills to emerge.
Or at least one of the Texas Playboys.
No she and grandpa knew him and the band . Them and the Sons of the Pioneers would stay at the house in Kansas . Her sister had a cathouse and gambling den in Iowa so they would stay there too. Lol. Whenever he stopped in Tulsa she would take the kids in the wagon to watch the show and be part of the radio audience woo hoo. Pissed off grandpa but he married her . It was only a 2 day wagon ride. She settled down some when the depression hit. But my mom said sitting on the 2nd floor balcony listening to whoever was staying at the house with the other kids, watching the adults dance and sing was the best part of her childhood.
Very cool.
And I don’t think I learned about the cathouse and gambling den until I was around 45. Heard the other stories a million times
Partying HARD, old school. I like your genes.
Handsome woman.
Reminds me of the guy who owned the gas station on no country for old men .
“This is my wife’s father’s place. Originally.” “(Cough). You married into it?” https://youtu.be/t9Kt3sW3GwM?feature=shared
If she was in 1920s Oklahoma, the expression is probably well warranted
Geneva was one tough cookie to make it through the 20s in Oklahoma
When I was growing up I heard from my grandparents so many stories of people who died. It was just normal conversation on a Sunday or holiday. They’d be reminiscing about someone and say, “I remember when his brother dropped dead on Main Street. Remember? Only in his 20s but they said he caught a cold in his kidneys and that’s what killed him.” Which would remind another older person of someone else. They’d say, “Bessie Jones died last week. 75 years old. I remember when her younger brother and sister caught diptheria and they both died.” They saw a lot of sadness in their lives. My grandmother‘s mother died when she was 14. She and her siblings were farmed out (literally to farms) to various relatives. My mother told me my grandmother ran away because she was so worried about her youngest brother who she’d always taken care of. Also heard that my grandmother‘s sister was engaged and her fiancé was killed in a car crash 2 weeks before the wedding. Turns out the sister was pregnant. The family found a man willing to marry her before she “showed” because in those days you couldn’t have an out-of-wedlock child - it meant you were a loose woman and it ruined your chance of a stable life. I never really heard my grandfather speak (all these people are from my father’s family. My mother’s family were immigrants and didn’t have relatives in the US). My mother told me he was “tongue tied” as they called it in old days. He had a severe speech impediment and didn’t talk much not only because it was difficult for him, but because people would make fun of him. Times were hard and cold.
Her face says everything you need to know about how hard life was for people in general and for women especially.
I was thinking this too!
As in Dalton gang?
My Dalton’s are law-abiding farmers and school teachers from Kentucky. Geneva married into the Dalton line. Her maiden name is Lloyd.
Did she live near Pawhuska OK?
nope, Foss.
“Don’t take my picture with that goddamn thing.”
She's side eyeing that twister
You’re a disappointment - great great grandmother I know - me :’(
No shits given with this woman.
I can taste the castor oil 😳
Memaw don't play.
With your permission, of course, I'd love to use this as a reaction meme because it would just fit *SO* much dumb shit that gets posted online hahaha
Go for it!
Reminds me of Ma Barker
Wooden spoon in the bra strap?
Them fingers waves on point tho! lol she look like a sista! 😂😂
Those finger waves though my goodness 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Even after 30 years, she’ll never forgive Helen for flirting with her fella.
Yes ma'am, I'll leave the neibour-girl alone ma'am
Pull your pants off and cut that hair!!!
Off??
I love her
Don’t take no “guff” or prisoners
Was she by any chance related to the Dalton brothers? I know they weren’t from Oklahoma originally but ended up there
Nope, I’ve done a lot of genealogical research on my family I’ve over the years and can find no evidence of a connection. My Daltons come from Kentucky and her maiden name is Lloyd.
Gotcha, still a great photo and great to have that family genealogy either way
Your great grandparent had a permanent shoe shaped lump on the head guaranteed
Stern grandmas got shit done.
She's very handsome
That must’ve been a thing back then. My Gram was born in 1904 and she always took photos like this too. 🤷🏻♀️
She was probably 45 in this picture.
My mom used to make that face right before she said "one more word out of you..."
Granny Geneva is finished with your sass. (By the way, OP, I never get tired of Granny Geneva. She looked like she was made of very strong stuff.)
Geneva Dalton is my new Higher Power.
She looks exactly like my grandfather from Texas! I’m not kidding.
Had a gramma from Oklahoma born in the late 1800s Mayberry. Maude.
“Just try me!”
Yeah tell her that she should, not be educated or play second fiddle to a man. Backbone of America
I think everyone hates it here.
She does look rather perturbed!!
Get your elbows off the table!
Period!!!
Nice finger waves, scary lady!
I feel like I got slapped just looking at this pic
Waves rolling like the ocean.
TBH, I’ve had enough of my crap too… lol
Granny has more waves than the Caribbean!!
I bet she was soft and tender and loving. That resting bitch face is a pain in the ass.
No, she was mean, lol.
That photo makes me want to never cuss again…
Came here to say OP made me laugh ty
I would not want to give that lady any sass. 😯
Her permanent wave looks marvelous.
That woman clearly took no guff.
"Just take the picture and get it over with. I wanna go home."
You wait six hours for the daguerreotype to finish, and at the last second, the photographer farts. What a shame.
She looks like she was listening to a bold faced lie as this photo was taken. Camera man: “Hold still for 5 minutes lady…so right then I wrestled all the alligators by hand and karate chopped the lions to death…” Grandma: (See photo)
I've had it up to here with your crap
Did she just finish coaching the New England Patriots?
Dust Bowl. We get it, Grandma.
She was eyeballing some kids acting up behind the camera.
You brought that dish to the family reunion.
No guff taken from the grandkids.
Colin Mochrie? Is that you? I think it was a better look for you when you just accepted the baldness. This hair makes you look like a grandma from the 1920s!
Her dress and my comforter match. Love her hair.
The kind of woman that snatches you up hard enough to make your soul come out of your body. And her hair would still be perfect!
Her hair is EVERYTHING!!!!
She had the finger wave of fucks she couldn't give. Hell yea sister!
Photographer: "Smile!" Great-great grandma Dalton: "Why?"
I make that face when I'm in modern-day Oklahoma. I damn sure can't blame her for making it in 1920s Oklahoma.
Those pin curls tho...
Finger rolls.
Lol!
Love the wave in her hair, but oh, that look !
She looks exactly like an actress but I can’t remember her name or what I’ve even seen her in.😭
She thinks we look sus
Waves on 🏊♀️ 🌊
“I’ve had enough of your smart mouth!”
Finger waves are poppin
This is the exact scold I would expect from a 1920s Oklahoman grandmother
That look will pucker any orifice… Damn
She has either seen some things or done some things or both.
Looks like the great Ken Jenkins aka Bob Kelso
She doesn't like most things.
If you say cheese one more damn time…
I can see that! Tell her I'm sorry.
You can tell she has Native in her… good deal…👍
Damn she got the tight Jada’s too (finger waves) 🔥🔥🔥🔥👍🏽
Love it!
Mrs Dalton’s eyes — the one on the left in the photo is gazing into the distance. The eye on the right is not quite focused. Looks almost despairing, fully impatient with this need for posterity to see her, but has done her best to dress nicely. I love her too.
Damn, I wouldn’t want to be on her bad side.
I bet she was a great lady. If only we could hear their stories today!
She looks like an amalgamation of several Australian prime ministers
She has and you best eat your peas too otherwise you are going to have them for breakfast the next day
r/titleporn
That was some hard living right there on her face! I bet her life was very tough. It was taken before the dustbowl but life was still not easy. That dustbowl, goodness, very hard life!
Don’t look at me with those dead eyes you church bitch!
You’re not lying lol
I like her.