QotD: If I Never Hear That Again...

What is the one saying that your parents said to you that you absolutely hate? 
Submitted by victoriassecret.

In my pseudo-wisdom accumulated over the number of years I have lived on this earth (as opposed to other earths), I have come to realize that many of my mom's little "-isms " are right.

• "someday, you're going to have a child just like you" - now that I look at it, it's not the "blessing" that I thought it was going to be at the time! LOL!
• "make sure that you are careful with your credit" - once again, right on the money!
• "if your head wasn't attached to your body you would lose it" - ummmm, okay, I admit, I am a little scatterbrained sometimes and indeed, if my head wasn't attached my body, I definitely would have lost it by now!
• "sit with your legs together, it's not ladylike to sit with your legs open like that" - I thought she was totally insane, but now when I see women that sit with their legs gaping apart, I come a little unhinged. It just seems...I don't know...crass. Especially when they're wearing shorts.

But the one I hated and still hate the most to this day..."Because Filipinos do it that way". What the heck does that mean? I'm Filipino, and I don't do things that way, so therefore the statement should read something like "Some Filipinos do it that way. It could apply to anything, like why use paper plate holders when you use the hardy styro plates for a party (ugh, don't even get me started about the non-enviro friendly stuff, they wouldn't know global warming if it came down and bit them in the ass.) It is so you can make your 4 lovely daughters handwash all of those stupid plate holders?

I love my Mom. My Dad* too, although he never threw "advice" like that around so I don't have as a bone to pick with him. But really. Just because "Filipinos do it that way" does not necessarily make it the right way!
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*Dad, if you're reading this, I know Mom doesn't read my blog, but please, don't tell her. We already got into it the last time I was there washing the freakin' paper plate holders after the potluck lunch we had. It'll only hurt her feelings and then I'd get into even more trouble than I got into when we had the "discussion" about the plate holders and will make me seem even more like a surly daughter than I already am.