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Potato Wagon

qualitygal — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:45:35 GMT

I had to look that up, since I didn't know what that was. I have seen them, and then from replies I was reading, evidentally, parents told kids that storms were the potato wagons going over a bridge. Or, other potato wagon stories were told.

I never heard one. Do you know any?

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millieshops — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:25:30 GMT

@qualitygalI'd never heard that term - don't even remember seeing it in novels. Thanks for the little lesson. Interesting analogy.

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Happydays — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:35:58 GMT

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luvdoodles — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:50:37 GMT

We were told it was the angels up in heaven bowling. I still didn't like storms and to this day I still don't.

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violann — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:25:47 GMT

The "treatment" for fear of thunder storms when my MIL was a girl was to lock everyone into a closet sitting on wooden stools with their feet off the ground reciting the Rosary.

Don't know of anyome in the family who ever succumbed to a thunder storm but I can vouch for the fact that mental health issues ran rampant.

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goldensrbest — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:33:56 GMT

As a child i always was told that someone dropped a bag of potato's,and they are rolling.

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AngusandBuddhasMom — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:51:44 GMT

We were told it was the Angels in heaven bowling.

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sunshine45 — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:36:34 GMT

@luvdoodles wrote:
We were told it was the angels up in heaven bowling. I still didn't like storms and to this day I still don't.

thats what my great grandmother always said to us!.....and of course, i told that to my kids.