Once my sister and I were traveling with my parents, stopped on the Rogers Pass to use the outdoor facilities. We were in our 20's. My sister used the toilet, then I did. We got back into the car, started driving, and she said to me "Did you see that huge spider inside the hole?" (outdoor toilet, hole for the waste, wooden seat, yuk I hate them) I said "yah saw it". She said "What did you do?" I said "Nothing but he sure got pissed off." And we both cracked up. My mother went ballistic and slapped me and said "how dare you use such foul language!"
Did anyone else have an uptight mother who was just over the top in her attitude about language? She was nuts, she hated the word "scunge" so we used it all the time, as much as possible.
Urban dictionary: Scunge: Slime or dirt that is both unidentifiable and nasty, and possibly likely to give birth to sentient life in the future. IE: "what is that scunge in your fridge?"
2007-09-07 08:27:57 · 10 answers · asked by isotope2007 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Sometimes she got on us for our "bad words." I have no idea where we picked up "I'll Swan" for "I swear," but we did, and she let us know in no uncertain terms we were not to swear.
I once said, "What the Dickens!" (knowing it was a safe word to say, because my best bud at the time was Barbara Dickens). Wrong. She informed me that any word in a certain tone of voice could be a swear word. Oops.
I was so careful ever after; then one day, the year before she died, she was in the car with me when a driver passed me on the right, and, not thinking, I said, in a nice, civilized tone, "Smooth move, turd!" And immediately realized I should have kept my mouth shut. I said, "Sorry, Mama."
She said, "Why? I couldn't have said it better myself!" Wow!
2007-09-07 15:40:27 · answer #1 · answered by felines 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not me, but my dad would swear like a sailor. We were in Italy and we were being driven from Rome to Lake Lucerne, my dad with his normal speech pattern was carrying on and on and on . Later we found out that the driver was a former priest! My mom just about died of embarrassment, I could barely contain the laughter, but I am sure if I laughed out loud I would have been grounded until I was 70.
The reason we had a driver is because my mom would not let my father drive on foreign soil, he was a terrible driver, never asked for directions and sometimes would end up in a state in the opposite direction of where we were heading. We had no hope of finding the destination when my dad didn't speak the language and would complain that these damn "foreigners' could not speak English....we were in THEIR county, we were the FOREIGNERS, in any case it was hilarious...sort of like being with Archie Bunker
2007-09-07 08:52:04 · answer #2 · answered by slk29406 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
my mom used to get really bent about our language - i slipped and said h e l l one time and i thought she was going to put me right through the wall. language of that sort was never tolerated in any way shape or form
by the way slk29406 - my Daddy was career Navy and not once in my life did i EVER hear him swear, so i am a little offended. i don't know why "sailors" have such a rep for swearing - the ones that i knew and remember had far too much respect for women and children to use that language in front of them
2007-09-07 13:35:49 · answer #3 · answered by bassetfreak 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, considering that every other word out of my Father's mouth was foul, my mother played lightly on this one. We were not allowed to curse, but then again, no one ever went ballistic...well, not entirely true, but true enough. After my father was killed, we were in a restaurant when I said loudly, "that........" (my father had a definite way of identifying or denigrating homosexuals)...I had no idea what it meant, I just knew I had heard it perhaps 12,000 times in my life. And being a kid, I was loud. ! My mother's face went white, she quietly told me that she NEVER wanted to hear that from me again! I, of course, asked, "What does that mean?" Needless to say, this was one of those "Wait until you are older" incidents :-)
2007-09-07 09:05:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
BOTH parents were strict about our language; cursing, slang, and improper English were NOT tolerated. However, Mom wouldn't have slapped us for what YOU said... though if SOAP was handy, we'd be blowing bubbles !
Dad always used "shoot", "fudge", "shinola" when working on the car or other unpleasant tasks.
In fact, when my Mom broke her leg (tibia & fibula) skiing... I was second on the scene as a Junior Ski Patrolman (16). Her leg was visiblely BENT, and she was saying over and over "Shoot, Shinola... Gosh Darn..." My little brother (15) and Dad skiied up a few moments later, and my brother said, "Gee Mom, your leg looks bad enough that I'd use 'sh!t'!!" Mom reached up and slapped him... "Watch your mouth."
I still laugh when I remember that... when we had splinted her leg, loaded her in the sled, and got her to the ambulance, I was assigned to ride with her. She grabbed the medic by his collar "Get me some G.D Demerol NOW !!"
My daughters are in their mid-teens and they've spit soap bubbles also.
2007-09-07 08:50:02 · answer #5 · answered by mariner31 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-10 03:43:10 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For whatever reason , we never used improper words in our family . I don't know what Mom or Dad would have said, had we used some choice words. We just never did .
2007-09-07 09:07:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We didn't use foul language and we never use the word "piss." I never liked that word so I wouldn't use it. Sorry.
2007-09-07 09:44:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, but not quite as much as that.
she's still that way to a degree, but mostly for the 'biggies'
2007-09-07 09:08:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I was up tight about my mother's language!
2007-09-07 15:12:41 · answer #10 · answered by jenny 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋