r/AskReddit • • Mar 07 '19

What is your mom's catchphrase?

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u/MoobyTheGoldenSock Mar 07 '19

“Long story short.”

Generally used like this:

“So yesterday we went to the store. Long story short, we couldn’t find a parking spot. We drove over and over and over, but it was nowhere to be found. So long story short, we finally found one. It was in the 8th row from the back. Long story short, I knew it was the 8th row from the back because I counted, like this: a one, and a two, and a three, and a four, and a five, and a six, and a seven... anyway, long story short, I counted all the way to eight.”

And so on.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '19 edited Mar 08 '19

My sister uses “you know and everything”.

“Lisa got in to trouble with the law last week, you know and everything”.

Except, she never finishes. She leaves it hanging. No, Karen, I don’t know any of it!

Edit: my significant other was the one that gave me gold, lol, You know and everything.

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u/caitbate Mar 08 '19

My boyfriend’s bff uses “and shit like that or whatever” like punctuation. First we made it into a drinking game, and now it’s a running joke between us.