I grew up in Utah in the 60s and 70s and my mother would say it. She grew up in Utah and Idaho.
However she was the only person I’ve heard it from, and that’s got to be 45 years ago or so.
But you said it to a mother, who you didn’t know.
Like many others, I’d look at you like… well, like you were an older man talking about kissing. And making cutesy little rhymes about it. You honestly don’t know why that’d be creepy?
You mentioned a score of people who had heard it (2, and one was you), but didn’t bring up the people who didn’t. What’s the percentage now?
Look, as a teacher, I have to be really vigilant because so many of the “old sayings” I grew up spouting are racist or sexist or just plain creepy. So when someone actually comes out and says “Ewww, that’s creepy,” the LAST thing anyone should do is just say “Oh, c’mon…”.
I’m trying to convince you before you say it to the next random young mother.
Yep to all this. From your perspective, you were just passing along a well-known expression to a neighbor. From hers, you were this dude she knows by sight but little else who interrupted her conversation with her kid to talk in a singsong voice (?) about kissing her child.
There are some boundaries that got stepped over there, Leo.
FTR, having grown up and lived nearly my whole life in NC, I’ve never heard this expression.
Wow. Thanks! Next you’ll be telling me not to show my cock to people on the street.
ETA: Possible OP: **How many people show their cock to people on the street? **
ETA2: Maybe they do in Ontario and Utah.
Never show your cock to people on the street.
Reserve it for the playground.
Since I got the ball rolling confirming usage of half-past kissing time in Ontario, I will point out that no, we didn’t show our cocks to people on the street when I was growing up. Rather, that was reserved for the fall fair, where various poultry farmers put their proudest roosters on display for everyone to see.
PS: Leo, did you see the poem whence the saying came? I linked to it up-thread.
My wife is from Utah, and she told me she didn’t show her cock to people on the street.
I’ve shown my cock to people on the street, given appropriate definitions of “people” and “street”.
If you start a thread telling us how shocked a mother is when you do that, yeah, I might warn you against it :).
I laughed at that, Leo. I assumed it was your way of showing that you were taking what we’d said to heart.
Florida born and raised. I’ve heard all of these–the monkey, the cow, the freckles, “time to get a watch”… all of them, EXCEPT the “kissing time” mentioned by the OP.
Virginia- never heard the kissing one, but I have heard the others.