You Gotta Be Careful Around Old School Moms | Etta May

Comedian Etta May on old school moms…

About Etta May:
Etta May has performed her brand of clean-comedy on Oprah, Showtime, Comic Strip Live, MTV, and as a guest commentator on “CBS Sunday Morning,” Winner of the prestigious American Comedy Awards “Comic Of The Year,” and so much more. In addition, she headlines the successful all-female comedy tour, “Etta May and the Southern Fried Chicks,” selling out theatres all over the country. Think Blue Collar Comedy Tour with better hair and a bigger attitude! In addition to television, Etta May is a regular on Sirius-XM Comedy Channels and the syndicated Bob & Tom radio show.

Born and in Bald Knob, Arkansas, Etta May grew up alongside nine older brothers, who referred to their baby sister as “the human sacrifice.” Etta May’s parents - her father, a potpourri farmer, and her mother, bedridden by constant childbearing - didn’t realize she was a girl until she needed a training bra.

She met her husband, Delbert, an aspiring truck driver, at a friend’s kegger. From across the yard, their eyes locked in a loving look, you know that stare that lasts a moment too long. Nine months later, she was blessed with a boy, and three more kids followed. “That’s where my comedy comes from. I just wait for my husband or kids to do something stupid, and then I write it down.”

Before finding success as a stand-up comic, Etta wandered from dead-end job to dead-end job, including a 10-year stint as a school bus driver. She says she learned how to handle unruly kids by Armor-Alling the seats and slamming on the brakes all the way to school. Her theory: “Kind of hard to pick a fight with the kid in front of you when you’re just holding on for dear life.”

Then she decided to take a chance on herself and follow her dream. Lots of hard work and drive, and a few years later, she wins “Female Comic Of The Year” at the American Comedy Awards. It’s the American Story we are all told that you can become anything you set your mind to in this great country, and for Etta May, it worked!

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[lindamoses]

My children acted up in the store they were given a warning if that didn’t work we left without anything. When they wanted to eat I asked them what are we eating we had to leave it in the store. If you think you can behave in the store we will go back and get groceries. No scene in the store no need for spankings. I learned that from my Mother. When on long trips we acted up in the car she would ask us if we wanted her to pull over. We learned to behave ourselves in the car because we didn’t like sitting at the side of the road doing nothing. She would sit there until we decided we didn’t want to act up anymore. It didn’t take very many times of that before we learned to straighten up. lol she had tons of patience but when they wore out you better get outside 😏

[melindaboyd]

I once threw a fit & laid down in the aisle, refusing to get up. She took my hand and pulled me (still refusing to get up) all the way through the store and out to the car. When we got home...she spanked me AND sent me to my room. Then she shut her bedroom door. When Dad came home & saw her closed door, he immediately came to my room and asked, "What did you do to your mother?! Then he spanked me and grounded me to my room for the rest of the night. Mom delivered my supper plate to me, but had no pity for me. You know I never threw a fit like that again again!! 😂

[LorraineLewis-qy]

I'm a Great Grandmother. Our kids never acted out in public or any place else, because they knew I would beat the brakes off their ASSES, like my Mother and Father did to me and my siblings.
When I was growing up everyone thought I was a good kid.
I was a child with anger blackouts.
When I came out of the blackout, the person who tried to bully me found out the hard way, they wished they never bothered me, because I fought dangerously. There would be emergency room visits for them. The police came to my house twice, but they would look and see that I was smaller and much younger than my attackers. They wanted my Parents to press charges against the attackers. But they wouldn't, they told the officer's that they felt these people had learned a painful lesson. "never try bullying others because you just might learn a painful but valuable lesson. The word in our neighborhood was, don't mess with me because I was crazy" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 But they never bothered me again.
Peace and prosperity to us all.
Just a thought from Granny Fran.

[Leskeepingitreal]

I left the grocery store many times until my kids learned to behave

[jens]

If we acted up when we were out. Mother say lets go we're leaving!! If we did it at McDonald's or whatever didn't matter if it was paid for our butts were back in the car lickity split. She didn't mess around. We got our butts smacked n what not. My dad never had to lay a hand on us all he had to do is raise his voice. He had a deep stern voice for a little man 😅. Only 5' 3" mother was the hardest on us .

[ursaltydog]

These days, as in old days, kids would try the screaming fit to get what they wanted, knowing it was causing an embarrassing scene... Then parents lernt their children that shit don't cut no ice. Today, parents are scared to do anything, so they leave their kids at home, never teaching them social skills and how to act in public.... like.. stay offa mama's bad side.

[CarolynCamillasJustAskCarolyn]

I love her because my mother knocked you out and step right over you. Lol. She never counted to three either. If she counted you knew you got hit at one and it was over! I am 60 years old, mama is 83 and we are just fine!

[cindykuhns]

I always took my kids to the bathroom. If they were acting out all i had to say was do we need to go to the bathroom? They started acting correctly very fast!

[AutumnBreezers]

How many got their butts whooped by the neighbors, then get it again when mom & dad found out? 🤚me!

[georgiamoyse]

We had to stand at the isles and if we missed behaved we got it bad when we got home.

[alanttea]

To much broomstick broken on me and whipping with various things just "because", so it's will never running through my head to act up.
I ended having a kind of teenage crisis between 25/27 years old.

[donaldjones]

Etta May is hilarious, but tells the truth about life in the “OLDEN DAYS!”
She is right on about the spankings we got! Didn’t kill us, but we learned to behave and respect others and their property. The spankings did not make criminals out of us when we grew up! If that were so I wouldn’t have served 20 years in the military and retired with honors. Never went to jail for child abuse. Only have gotten 1 traffic ticket in my life. I am 77 years old now. It was never “ count to 3” rubbish!😂

[evelynkilgore]

My step sister pitched a fit. I got hit.