re: Creative threats your parents came up with

My mother would sometimes say, "I'll skin you alive", as a verbal cue. At the time, I never really thought about what it meant in the literal sense. I just knew it meant I'd better stop whatever I was doing at the time. She was a very small woman and probably didn't weigh 100 lbs., and a very kind person...very kind and caring. Thinking back, it makes me laugh. She knew what it took to deal with my young butt.