[honeychile]

My father's mother was old-fashioned Swiss, the type that was SO thrifty, the one time she gave me a cookie, she charged my daddy a nickel! Let's be kind and say I didn't learn much from her.

Even though my mother's mother died before I was born, her advice was repeated to me by my mother a gazillion times.

Never leave the house without enough money to make a phone call - you never completely know if the man is a gentleman!

If you end up in the hospital with not-fresh panties, the nurses will assume you're not a nice girl and you won't receive proper treatment.

It takes so little to be kind. Combine that with Politeness is to do and say/The kindest thing in the kindest way.

And lastly (for now!), never let a man see you in hair curlers. Ever. Even if you're married. I was never permitted to come to the breakfast table as a teenager in hot rollers, because my father would have seen me in rollers!