Not real sure exactly what "conniption fits" are, but I must be a carrier. My mother used to say

[Floyd R. Turbo]

that I gave her them!

[irisblue]

1. are they a subset of hissy fits? Da Momma said my sister had them alot.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Could be! I apparently also drove her

"apoplectic"

[sarge43]

3. One of the signs of the condition

An expression similar to the one wild animals get just before they eat their young.

A milder form of the condition is the hizzy fit. The more extreme condition, the shit fit, is most often seen in fathers.

Most mothers will suffer from the condition, becoming most acute during their children's teenage years.

[Warpy]

4. It's a snot-slinging fit out here in the west

My mother, who hailed from New York, called it a shit hemmorhage.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. I recall the look! Crazed, foam dripping from one corner of the mouth and her eyes like

Christopher Lee's!

[marylandblue]

6. That's funny, my mother said she was going into Conniptions

Which I thought was a store where you could buy implements to torture your children with.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. Hahahahaha!

"Conniptions Five and Dime"

[Skittles]

7. male form of the vapors

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. That's another one! My great aunt was always getting

the vapors!

[irisblue]

13. for reference see Lindsey Graham (R SC).

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. My brothers and I had them a lot when we were kids,

at least according to our mother.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. To the best of my knowledge, the only cure is

"keep it up, and I'll give you something to cry about!"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. That usually worked.

I think in those days parents got a handbook of useful phrases when they took a new baby home.

Like these:

"Don't make me pull this car over...!"
"The starving children in India would be happy to have those lima beans!"
"Stop making those faces or your face will get stuck that way."
"Because I'm your mother and I said so."
"If all your friends jumped off a cliff would you do it too?"
"Don't slam the door!!!" (Grandma's favorite)

[KT2000]

14. +1000 !

I remember all of those.

[sarge43]

15. The one I heard many times

"I pray when you grow up and have children, they're all just like you."

Probably why I never had kids. A mother's curse is serious shit.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. All used by my mother! My old man on the other hand only had to produce that whisper of his

belt slipping through his trouser loops!

[Thor_MN]

19. I actually did pul the car over on my mother and sisters.

I had had enough of their criticisms of my driving and pulled over on the hill we were going up, got out and sat in the back seat.

My sister killed the engine twice (manual transmission) before we got going again.

I kept my mouth shut, even though she proved my point that she could not do it better.

[LeftInTX]

24. LOL - so true

I heard them all but didn't use them, with the exception of one:

I would threaten to pull the car over and follow up on the threat.
Then, I would get out of the car and stand there while my kids fought in 100 plus degree weather
After a few minutes they could calm down.
So, I would start driving.
They would start fighting again.
I would pull the car over. (Lather rinse repeat)

The kids tease me to this day.
I still can't figure out why they kept fighting in such gawd awful weather.
They think the whole ordeal was funny.

[rurallib]

20. My dad would threaten to "knock your heads together"

and he did it a couple of times. Jesus that hurt.

[KT2000]

16. I was a carrier too!

My Mom had some more but I'm afraid to post them because I never knew what they really meant - could be awful. Ever hear of diabeastabunction??

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. Holy crap!

Sounds serious!

[KT2000]

22. yep -

that was beyond conniptions

[Archae]

21. My parents would say we were having an "eppy attack."

What the heck is that, anyway?

[lastlib]

31. reference to epileptic seizure?

[LeftInTX]

23. I thought is was a southern thing,

but seeing the comments on this thread, I guess it non-geographical specific

One of my husband's coworkers (a true Texas gal) would accuse someone of having a "Wild hair up their butt".

[lastlib]

25. (I think it's "wild HARE up the butt".......)

(o'course, Ah could be wrong.....)

That's a nastier version of the "ants in your pants" affliction, I think.....

[LeftInTX]

26. LOL - I never asked him to spell "hair" or "hare"...ROFL

All these years, I thought it was a hair.

For years I envisioned this worm like hair....going up someone's.....yep, for 30 years this is what I thought....

[lunatica]

32. No it's "a hair across your ass"

Assholery on steroids I think

[Kali]

29. as a person with long hair, I assume it means hair

ever try to extract a loose stray long hair from that slightly sensitive area?

[lastlib]

30. The word "excruciating" DOES come to mind........

...but I'll stand with what I said above...

[Alice11111]

27. Sounds like we had the same mother.

[Xipe Totec]

28. Better to give than to receive. nt