Do your "roots" show?

**paelthom** · 03-16-2005, 10:42 AM

and I'm not talking about hair roots. LOL

Does the way you were brought up show or creep out at various times?

I was raised by grandparents who were very much country folk and went to school with lots of what would now be called "red necks". I like to think that most days I've risen above the attitudes and anger that I grew up with. However those days that someone really pushes my buttons really does bring out the worst in me. I find myself cranking up the music way to loud and having an overwhelming urge to put on old faded tight jeans, boots and a too-tight t-shirt and go kick butt. Now mind you that I don't have tight jeans or shirts and my boots are dress boots now but the feelings do rise back up. I like to think it's just the mother bear in me because it's usually only when dd or someone I especially care about is bothered.

Surely I'm not the only one who has a bad side. Want to share about yours????

**kimmie** · 03-16-2005, 10:50 AM

For the most part, the only time my "redneck, raised in the sticks" roots show is when I'm mad. People who know me know that when I go from only a southern drawl and excellent grammar to hick-phonics and saying ain't -- watch out -- I'm about to blow!

**momof5** · 03-16-2005, 10:50 AM

Well I was raised by my grandmother (my mother died when I was very little). She was very Italian. I had Aunts I lived with that were 5 and 10 years older than me including my sister and my dad. One thing about our household is when someone had something on their mind, they said it. I was raised "old fashioned". I think this is why I fell in love with my husband was because he has old fashioned values. Anyway, I find myself having to catch myself and really think about what I'm going to say because sometimes the words fly out without me thinking. Another thing is I have a rotten mouth. I've gotten a lot better as the years go by, but I still have a "potty mouth".

**momof5** · 03-16-2005, 10:54 AM

Oh and with the latin side of the family. It's funny because my grandparents think that Vicks vapo rub is a "miracle cure" for everything. If your ear hurts they'd rub it on your ear. I can remember being sick as a kid and my grandmother rubbing my entire body down with Vics Vapo rub and rubbing alcohol. I find myself going through a bottle of Vicks every couple months.

**MarshHen** · 03-16-2005, 11:05 AM

LOL Nikki, I remember my mother and grandmother rubbing us down with Vicks too. They would rub it on our chests and the bottom of our feet and put thick socks on us and pin a piece of flannel cut from one of dad's old shirts around our necks and then tuck it into our jammies. Oh gosh, after a good day of that, you were ripe! LOL It seemed to keep us opened up though and we didn't get the dreaded croup.

**paelthom** · 03-16-2005, 11:11 AM

Ya'll sound like family to me! What was it about that Vicks!!!

How does that song go, you can take the girl out of the honky tonk but you can't take the honky tonk out of the girl - that's me.

**MarshHen** · 03-16-2005, 11:40 AM

As far as roots go, I'm Southern Irish. I'm pretty cool about most things and I have learned not to sweat the small stuff, but when it comes to someone being lazy and expecting something for nothing, I get highly ticked. I'm also very protective of my family too, especially my chicldren and grandbabies. But then again, I feel that way about all children who have lazy, uncaring parents. Having been a foster parent for a few years, I've seen some sorry, selfish parents. I also have a problem with people who think they are above everyone else for whatever reason. I have to stay clear of them cause I have been known to tell them exactly where they really stand as far as I'm concerned, and it ain't pretty. In a nut shell, I have a problem with stupid people.

**Hollyhandi** · 03-16-2005, 12:02 PM

Both kind of roots show here!

I was brought up in the country with big gardens and family dinners on Sunday.
I miss them but now know why my head always ached on Sunday. 15 neices and nephews running chasing and being kids.
Guess thats why I love the country living and don't have to have every convience made for man.
I wish I could give that family time to my DS but there isn't many of us around and the ones that are are busy with their own families.

**momof5** · 03-16-2005, 12:17 PM

Oh Carolyn I agree. I think with my strong Italian background I'm the same way. I'm also a big overachiever. I'm also very optimistic and I can't stand to see people feeling sorry for themselves.

**paelthom** · 03-16-2005, 12:29 PM

Oh I miss those big Sunday dinners too. I don't know how my grandma could stand all of us running and playing and screaming. I don't have them anymore either. My dd will never get to experience the rowdyness of cousins going berserk after way too much cake and ice cream.

**DaisyLady** · 03-16-2005, 07:03 PM

Woohoo, I'm a redneck and proud of it!! My mom likes to pretend she was brought up in cultured English society but the fact of the matter is we can trace the family on both her and my dad's side as either farmers or military men for many, many generations.

It's funny to think about how our roots influence who we are. My dh's biological father was Jamaican. He died when dh was a baby. Even though dh only ever lived in Jamaica for less than a year, there are days when there is no denying his laid back Carribean heritage. I even see it in my youngest son!

As for me (other than being a redneck) my mother swears I get my frugal ideas from my Scottish heritage.

ssn01 · 03-17-2005, 09:55 AM

LOL

what a great post...

Mine is usually when my toes have been stepped on (figuratively) or when someone close to me I care about is hurt.

I was raised on the wrong side of town & escaped by running away early & starting a life of my own at 16.
I grew up where you had to defend EVERYthing... even if it meant to kick someone's @rse. And it happened.

So I can get that way - only once in a while. Doesnt happen unless someone says something that shows how stupid/ignorant they really are & I'm just in the "right" mood to kick their @rse! LOL

It usually passes, as I end up walking away - taking the upper road, so we were taught as kids - tho I doubt it at times!

But yes... them's my roots!

**frugalmel** · 03-17-2005, 05:08 PM

Well this is not exactly the same, but both my mom and dad had quick tempers. They were also yellers. So for me its my upbringing coming out when I get PO'd. I have a potty mouth that I try not to let loose, I have been known to floor the vehicle and drive "nasty" when people in other cars (or even my own) tick me off.

I have really worked hard to overcome my yelling and door slamming, but sometimes it just happens.

So I am not sure that its so much "roots" or heritage as it is upbringing.