The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

PROVERBIAL METAPHOR: DON'T DAWDLE

SHIT OR GET OFF THE POT.

Submitter comment: THIS WAS SAID BY A MAN WHO WAS TRYING TO GET SOMEONE ELSE TO MAKE
UP HIS MIND ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT TO GO DOWNTOWN. OVERHEARD IN
LEBANON, TENNESSEE, SAID BY TWO MEN STANDING ON SIDEWALK IN FRONT
OF A GROCERY STORE. WHEN THEY REALIZED THEY HAD BEEN HEARD BY
ME, THEY LOOKED VERY EMBARRASSED AND LAUGHED SHEEPISHLY. THEY
LOOKED 45-50 AGE GROUP.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; LEBANON

Date learned: 04-00-1972