*This Halloween story is brought to you by G-ma Wadsworth.... Enjoy!
Halloween Heebeegeebees
Have you ever had the "heebeegeebees"? I'll bet you have and you just don't know it! It is not derived from He-bee...the goddess of youth and spring. It is a form of colloquialism which appears to have derived from the culture of the people in the southern portion of the United States. Being from the South I have the understanding of what it means to have the "heebeegeebees". Wise King Solomon stated, "Get wisdom and in all thy getting, get understanding." It is my quest to bring understanding to the word "heebeegeebees". This could be that I have lived with Grandpa too long, or on the other hand, that I have lived without him too long!
My grandmother was filled with colloquialism. She often made this statement, "With some people you just pass and repass." Meaning that if they are busybodies or troublemakers you don't get involved in their business. You greet them and go about your own affairs. Just smile, nod and move along...
Another colloquialism she used was, "I've got to turn my tail over my back to get that done!" Meaning that whatever it was she was doing at the time she had to hurry and scurry like a squirrell to accomplish the task at hand. The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree, so my daughter, as a child, formulated her own vocabulary to fit the situation which brought laughter to our family. She was afraid of bugs. They gave her the "heebeegeebees"! When she was about six years old, she had been pinched by a huge, hardshelled pincherbug while seated next to me high up on a ferris wheel at the carnival that had come to town. Needless to say, she was terrified and screaming at the top of her lungs until the ride operator stopped and let us off. Later, after she had calmed down, she mimicked what she had seen me do when stomping on a bug and she looked up at me and said, "Look, Mother, I squmped it!"
Last night I went with one of my sons to pick up a door at the shop of a friend after we attended his son's football game. It was getting late so I stayed in the warm car and dozed off while they visited inside the shop. I awoke much later with a good case of the heebeegeebees...a nervous feeling that prevented me from going back to sleep...His friend came out of the shop just as I was stepping out of the car to walk around and try and shake it off. He invited me inside and apologized for keeping me waiting so long and I commented that I simply had a case of the hebeegeebees. Then I asked him if he had ever had a case of the "heebeegeebees" and he replied, "No, but my wife has. She's from the South too!" (It would be interesting to know what gives her the heebeegeebees.) For me, this attacks when I am awakened from sleep shortly after I've dozed off. It creates a restless feeling making it impossible to go back to sleep for awhile. Sometimes when this happens I'll walk through the house and peer out the window to observe what happens in the still of the night while the rest of the world is sleeping...
One night while a case of the heebeegeebees had overtaken me, I looked out the window and watched some deer that had walked out of a nearby mountain, hunting for a tasty morsel of food. Neighbors awoke the next morning to find their shrubs nibbled on, their tulip bulbs uprooted and eaten and their gardens ransacked!
Mothers tend to experience the heebeegeebees when they're waiting up for their teenaged children to come home or they've fallen asleep while waiting only to discover that the child hasn't returned home at curfew, or a wandering child doesn't come home at all. This creates an acute case of the heebeegeebees which mothers then transfer to fathers (and you definitely do not want fathers getting a case of the hebeegeebees. Never, never, never!)
Another night I was accidentally awakened by guests who had arrived after I fell asleep. When they retired to their beds I crept out of my bed with a good case of... you guessed it... the heebeegeebees! I did my usual thing, wandering through the house, and when I looked out the window I saw the flashing lights of police cars out in the street by my house and I wondered whose children were up too late or who it was that was in trouble inside the cars the police had stopped. This gave me a double-dose of the heebeegeebees which caused me to have nightmares all night long! I dreampt Dr. Phil and his wife, Robin, had come to visit me and I was tyring to make them a casserole to eat because they were so hungry that Robin put her hand into her pocket and found a few little, tiny pieces of candy to munch on. Dr. Phil counseled her to "go ahead and eat them." I could NEVER get that casserole finished and before the dream was over I had put chalkboard erasers and everything else imaginable into it. Thank goodness we never got around to eating it..... I was so wiped out the next morning, after I woke up, that my houseguests had to fix their own breakfast. Don't EVER get the heebeegeebees!
I am fully aware that it is not just women or mothers who get the heebeegeebees. Some people get the heebeegeebees on Halloween night when it is dark outside and spookey--oo--key! My great uncle, whose nickname was Possum, got a horrific case of the heebeegeebees way back in Tennessee on one of these dark and spooky (and might I add moonless) Halloween nights. He was peacefully meditating while sitting in his outhouse, when suddenly my mother's brothers, without knowing Uncle Possum was sitting on his throne, began to lift up his outhouse as a Halloween trick, to put it up on top of his barn. Uncle Possum was filled with the "heebeegeebees" and he let out a blood-curddling scream which nearly scared those mischievious boys to death! It most definitely is not fun to have a case of the heebeegeebees.
Happy Halloween Everyone~ Love, G-ma Wadsworth
Halloween Heebeegeebees
Have you ever had the "heebeegeebees"? I'll bet you have and you just don't know it! It is not derived from He-bee...the goddess of youth and spring. It is a form of colloquialism which appears to have derived from the culture of the people in the southern portion of the United States. Being from the South I have the understanding of what it means to have the "heebeegeebees". Wise King Solomon stated, "Get wisdom and in all thy getting, get understanding." It is my quest to bring understanding to the word "heebeegeebees". This could be that I have lived with Grandpa too long, or on the other hand, that I have lived without him too long!
My grandmother was filled with colloquialism. She often made this statement, "With some people you just pass and repass." Meaning that if they are busybodies or troublemakers you don't get involved in their business. You greet them and go about your own affairs. Just smile, nod and move along...
Another colloquialism she used was, "I've got to turn my tail over my back to get that done!" Meaning that whatever it was she was doing at the time she had to hurry and scurry like a squirrell to accomplish the task at hand. The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree, so my daughter, as a child, formulated her own vocabulary to fit the situation which brought laughter to our family. She was afraid of bugs. They gave her the "heebeegeebees"! When she was about six years old, she had been pinched by a huge, hardshelled pincherbug while seated next to me high up on a ferris wheel at the carnival that had come to town. Needless to say, she was terrified and screaming at the top of her lungs until the ride operator stopped and let us off. Later, after she had calmed down, she mimicked what she had seen me do when stomping on a bug and she looked up at me and said, "Look, Mother, I squmped it!"
Last night I went with one of my sons to pick up a door at the shop of a friend after we attended his son's football game. It was getting late so I stayed in the warm car and dozed off while they visited inside the shop. I awoke much later with a good case of the heebeegeebees...a nervous feeling that prevented me from going back to sleep...His friend came out of the shop just as I was stepping out of the car to walk around and try and shake it off. He invited me inside and apologized for keeping me waiting so long and I commented that I simply had a case of the hebeegeebees. Then I asked him if he had ever had a case of the "heebeegeebees" and he replied, "No, but my wife has. She's from the South too!" (It would be interesting to know what gives her the heebeegeebees.) For me, this attacks when I am awakened from sleep shortly after I've dozed off. It creates a restless feeling making it impossible to go back to sleep for awhile. Sometimes when this happens I'll walk through the house and peer out the window to observe what happens in the still of the night while the rest of the world is sleeping...
One night while a case of the heebeegeebees had overtaken me, I looked out the window and watched some deer that had walked out of a nearby mountain, hunting for a tasty morsel of food. Neighbors awoke the next morning to find their shrubs nibbled on, their tulip bulbs uprooted and eaten and their gardens ransacked!
Mothers tend to experience the heebeegeebees when they're waiting up for their teenaged children to come home or they've fallen asleep while waiting only to discover that the child hasn't returned home at curfew, or a wandering child doesn't come home at all. This creates an acute case of the heebeegeebees which mothers then transfer to fathers (and you definitely do not want fathers getting a case of the hebeegeebees. Never, never, never!)
Another night I was accidentally awakened by guests who had arrived after I fell asleep. When they retired to their beds I crept out of my bed with a good case of... you guessed it... the heebeegeebees! I did my usual thing, wandering through the house, and when I looked out the window I saw the flashing lights of police cars out in the street by my house and I wondered whose children were up too late or who it was that was in trouble inside the cars the police had stopped. This gave me a double-dose of the heebeegeebees which caused me to have nightmares all night long! I dreampt Dr. Phil and his wife, Robin, had come to visit me and I was tyring to make them a casserole to eat because they were so hungry that Robin put her hand into her pocket and found a few little, tiny pieces of candy to munch on. Dr. Phil counseled her to "go ahead and eat them." I could NEVER get that casserole finished and before the dream was over I had put chalkboard erasers and everything else imaginable into it. Thank goodness we never got around to eating it..... I was so wiped out the next morning, after I woke up, that my houseguests had to fix their own breakfast. Don't EVER get the heebeegeebees!
I am fully aware that it is not just women or mothers who get the heebeegeebees. Some people get the heebeegeebees on Halloween night when it is dark outside and spookey--oo--key! My great uncle, whose nickname was Possum, got a horrific case of the heebeegeebees way back in Tennessee on one of these dark and spooky (and might I add moonless) Halloween nights. He was peacefully meditating while sitting in his outhouse, when suddenly my mother's brothers, without knowing Uncle Possum was sitting on his throne, began to lift up his outhouse as a Halloween trick, to put it up on top of his barn. Uncle Possum was filled with the "heebeegeebees" and he let out a blood-curddling scream which nearly scared those mischievious boys to death! It most definitely is not fun to have a case of the heebeegeebees.
Happy Halloween Everyone~ Love, G-ma Wadsworth
