“If you didn’t spend so much time dilly-dallying maybe you wouldn’t be up so late finishing your homework.”

These aren’t specific memories from my childhood. Some things happen so frequently specific incidences get lost in the flood. My father threw the word dilly-dally at me and my sisters so often it seemed more a condition of of our existence than a word. “Quit yer dilly-dallying and get the dishes done!”