"Glad"-brand products use the slogan,

[Wilson Gray]

Don't get mad! Get "Glad!"


Down East Texas way, black parents tell their annoyed children, of
whatever age: "_If you('re) mad, you betta get glad_!" The meaning is,
"I simply do *not* care *what* your feelings about this [whatever]
are!"

As a consequence, I personally find this slogan extremely annoying,
because it reminds me of thousands of losing set-to's with my mother,
throughout my childhood and youth.

Is this saying familiar to anybody else from down home?
--
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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