Phrases from the distant past

When I was young, very many years ago, my mum used to take me with her shopping and visiting people. If I misbehaved, or behaved less than perfectly, she had two phrases that compelled instant obedience.
The first was:
"Wait till I get you home!"
The second:
"I'll deal with you later."
These phrases could be combined into a single, chilling sentence:
"I'll deal with you when we get home."
Any one of these was sufficient to create an impeccably behaved child or youth in the hope that mum would forget the earlier misdemeanours and remember only the perfect daughter of the latter part of her trip!

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daddybloke · 46-50, M

we had three phrases that struck the fear of god into us the 1st two were exactly the same as yours but the 3rd one was wait till your father gets home, that meant spending the rest of the day terrified of what was going to happen, we would do extra jobs and be really nice and helpful to mum hoping she would change her mind but she never did

SuziSatan02 · 46-50, F

@daddybloke In my turn it wasn't being helpful - just trying any kind of distraction technique, whether it was trying to get them talking about something else (however ridiculous) or trying to create some problem which would take their mind off it...or, when we had a house with a cellar, just ineffectually "hiding" in the hope that they'd forget. It didn't work.

SuziSatan02 · 46-50, F

@SuziSatan02 And of course it wasn't the spanking that I was really afraid of...

daddybloke · 46-50, M

@SuziSatan02 what was you afraid of ?

Dez580 · 61-69, M

@SuziSatan02 no it didn't for my sister and myself either, still the whacking to come would be very painful but was over in a relatively short time. it was both the anticipation and trepidation that was the worst, even more than the actual discipline