Check this out! (Sorry, it wouldn’t let me embed it for some reason, but you HAVE to see this to appreciate it)
Doesn’t this video crack you up? Nobody and I mean, NOBODY, can lay an evil-eye on you like your mom can! Even this kid above learned that look real quick! 
So in honor of the fact I LOVE Caine’s collector card and because Emma’s got some arresting eyes :yes: I’m having a fun contest!
All you have to do to enter is tell me your favorite “evil-eye” story. You know the one, that time where your mom’s look stopped you in your tracks. You can either describe “her look” OR tell the story of what you were doing that earned you that “evil-eye”. UPDATED: It’s perfectly acceptable to relate a story where YOU gave the “evil-eye” too. 
This contests runs through the end of the day on Thursday and I’ll pick FIVE names at random to win a signed card from me (I’ll send you all three if you don’t have the other two from books one and two already). I’ll announce the winners on Friday morning! Have fun!
Ahem, the winners will get another little goody along with their cards… :yes:
Patrice
Hi Patrice!
That video cracked me up!
Hmm…. Mum’s evil eye… that would have to be when I was about 10, and decided to read some of her books. She didn’t think that romance novels were quite appropriate for me yet. She walked in on me taking one from her shelf. One look, and I just quietly put it back on the shelf and walked out of the room.
I learned to steal them from the shelf when she wasn’t home after that
Kim
LOL Kim! I can only imagine my mom’s face if she’d seen what I was reading as a young teen. =O
Hi Patrice! Unfortunately I have to say that I’m at that age that I can’t really remember too many evil eye stories from when I was young. I will tell you though being a Mom myself that I have been told by both my son, and my husband that I ( LOL ) have a very scary evil eye! When I give them the eye, they know that I am serious! Have a great day!
Barb P…lol…that’s funny and having your own “evil eye” is perfectly acceptable to enter! Thanks for sharing.
My Mother had the best facial expressions. I could tell just what she was thinking by her face. She’d be talking to my Aunt on the phone and her eyebrow would go up and she’d have this smirk that said my Aunt was making her crazy.:lol: I knew that if I did something wrong a look from my Mom was more damaging than swats on my rear-end. :no: Her eyebrow would slowly move up over one eye, the left eye and she’d just barely shake her head, as if to say: you know better. I tried to duplicate that look with my own daughter, but I never had the impact she did, although I did master the eyebrow lift =D
My Mom and I are very close so I have only earned the “evil eye” twice (that I can remember.)
The first was when I was when I was 17 and she showed up at my part-time job unannounced….and caught me smoking!
The second was just a couple of years ago. There I was, 39 years old….leaning over to tie my son’s shoe and she notices my “tamp stamp” tattoo for the first time!! :no: Holy Schmitzelfritz….you’da thunk I just smacked her upside her head!
What she didn’t know was that I was in the process of designing another tattoo in her honor! (Surviving breast and lung cancer!) That one she ended up liking!! :grinnod:
Thanks for offering such a great contest, Patrice!!
P.S. I don’t have any of the cards! :love:
Hm, I think I want to tell a story where I gave the evil-eye, because I inherited “the evil look”, as my best friend calls it, from my mum.
Said best friend and I went to the swimming pool. After we had swum several laps we were a little exhausted and wanted to relax in one of the nearby whirlpools. Just relax a little. Nothing more. And what is the ultimate poison when you want to relax?
Yes, crying, jumping, splashing little children.
There were three of them. Between four and seven, I’d guess. First, they only climbed into the pool and out several times. That was okay. But then they began swashing and jumping in and out and shouting and ANNOYING me. But I also didn’t want to say something against little children. I mean, they’re children, after all.
But then my friend said: “Lisa, give them the evil look!” and I – never thinking that it would work in the least – screw up my eyes and fixed my gaze at them.
The children stopped splashing. Actually, they stopped moving entirely. They only stared at me and then, with horror dilated eyes, climbed out of the pool as quickly as I’ve never seen anybody move and were never to be seen again.
I was flabbergasted. My friend still tells people how I can chase off people with nothing more than my evil look.
Sometimes I scare myself…
my mom had this look and a quirk of her eyebrow and i KNEW to sit down and shut up,no matter what
my children says i have a even worser eye than that, some of the boys that come around with to talk to my girls ,
told my kids, i scre the living daylights out of them when i look at them and making sure the hands was in plain sight , 1 actually told his friend and it got back around, he nearly peed his pants, while i was looking at him, and there was a huge ant, i stomped on while talking to him and he wasnt expecting it
i have 3 dughter and 1 grandaughter, so im reallyyyy praticing to sound threaten, didnt know i was so scary looking as i thought
and please enter me for cards, i have noneeeeee
You know I don’t ever remember getting the evil eye from my mother but…..I sure can remember her giving my older brother one or two. Usually it was my father who disciplined him and brother ignored him but one time when my mother gave him the evil eye he sure paid attention. I don’t know if her evil eye worked or if he was so surprised he just cringed. Anyway the cause of her evil eye was because he had talked me (I was about 6) into climbing into the rafters of the garage and then left me stuck there. I was too scared to move so was there until she found me. =O
I don’t have an evil eye story. When I try to use it, my children and all children don’t take me seriously. I just don’t have it in me.
I love the video clip. Too cute.
My mother never had much of an evil eye. Being Catholic, we go straight for the guilt in my family. However, my husband has the scariest, the most frightening, and the most shiver-inducing evil-eye on the planet. He has caused grown men to fall completely silent and duck their heads. He has made belligerent, idiotic customer service representatives cry. And he’s made his own bosses call him ‘sir’ (in all seriousness). The funniest thing is my honey has no understanding of his own power. He just has an expressive face. We keep trying to get a pic of his ‘scary face’, but so far no luck!
The evil eye in my family must have skipped a generation because my mom had down but when I try it, it does nothing. My 10 year old actually asked me once if there was something wrong with my eyes when I tried to give it to her! lol omg after that I just had to laugh!
Let’s see – the best evil eye story I have with my mom would be when she gave it to my brother (who’s 4 years older than me). We were making sandwiches for school one night and since he always bullied me (and my 2 sisters) he picked up the bread, put it to his butt and farted on it!!! No joke – he’s such a pig. My mom walked in while he was doing it, just gave him the evil eye. He quietly threw the bread away and just automatically went and sat in “the corner”. I tried not to laugh but it was really hard!!!
I got the evil when went to get another
piece of cake or take a little more of something.
OMG, these are so great! Keep ‘em coming. They’re really making me snicker. :yes:
eek, I got the evil-eye when I was talking to my mom about my brother’s girlfriend. See, I don’t dislike her, I just didn’t like the fact that she was living with my brother and didn’t work. So, out of nowhere I blurt out, “Is the sex that good?” and, umm, that’s something we just don’t say in front of my mom, lol. She gave me a look and I quickly mumbled an appology and looked down, lol
Gail, my mom had that “look” when she was on the phone too! :yes:
Kimba, isn’t it funny that no matter how old you get, your mother will STILL use the evil-eye on you? My mom did that to me over Thanksgiving last year and I was surprised by it. I wasn’t doing anything wrong…she just thought I was. Oy! Makes it easier to smile and say, “That doesn’t work on me anymore, Mom.” hehe
Lisa, You scared those kids silly! Makes you wish you could “see” yourself doing it, doesn’t it?
Blackrose, you KEEP those boys in line! :grinnod:
EllenToo, Nothing is more fright-inducing than making your mother angry over fear for one of her other kids.
Claritta, I’ll bet deep down your kids know when you’re being dead serious about something though!
Joey, I have a girlfriend who swears her husband is just like this. Waitstaff always cower when he looks at them and he has NO idea of his power or why they act like that. :yes:
Tracy, LOL that your kids asked if there was something wrong with you eyes. That’s when you say, “Sit still, I’m spelling you.” =D LOVED the story about your brother, I laughed so hard. That’s SO like a boy! I hope he grew up to be a nicer MAN.
Patricia, moms always seem to have a sixth sense when we’re trying to take too much.
Ali, I think that’s truly a case of “speaking your mind”…hehe. Moms are amazing whip-fast with the evil-eye aren’t they.
Okay…winners names are coming up shortly! Stay tuned.
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Patrice – he’s mildly improved! :grinnod: