From Hardi's mom: "Don't you EVER let me CATCH you playing in the coalyard..." (or on the train tracks)

From Hardi's younger brother: Ain't MY (fill in the blank)... (describing a crisis about to occur over which he does not plan intervention)


From Grandpa Cleve, "Goddammit to hell!!" and "hellfire!"

From Hardi's great-grandmother, coming from the back bedroom to mutter this and then go back, "Yoyyyymeneeee......"

From Hardi's childhood doctor, "Dot kid got rrrrrrotten troat, I geeev shotttt!"


From Hardi's pals:

Go play marbles on the freeway.

Hey kid yer ma dresses ya funny...



From my grandfather, "RRRRRUBBish!"

From my mother, "Beggars can't be choosers."

~Susan