Now, we knew to behave. We had manners then. It ain't like the children
now. We didn't say, ‘yes’, ‘no’, and ‘what’ and ‘ain't going to do it’,
and all like that. We had to say ‘yes, m'am’, and ‘no, m'am; yes, sir’
and 'no, sir!. Lord, if we ever said ‘what’ to anybody, we would have
got a whipping then. Everybody was raised that way then. All the
children were. They wasn't like they are now. Lord, I never spoke back
to my parents. And now they talk awful to their parents. I tried to
raise mine like I was raised. My children was always good to mind me.
But we knew to mind. I said if we'd ever run out to those old T Models,
if one'd stop out there, and my daddy'd see me run out there to see who
was in that car, I guess I'd a gotten a whipping of my life. 'Course my
daddy never licked me in my life. But now, my mother did. They didn't
allow us to jump up and see who was coming. We sit still until they got
out of the car and come in the house. They let us look at their cars,
but now, we didn't run out there. I know I got some grandchildren that
does it. They're the first to the car when it stops. They're just not
raised no more like they were.