Is anyone else sick and tired of hearing the F-bomb all the time now?

[happybird]

31. I come from a long line of women who can cuss like sailors

My mother is especially noted for her creativity and spontaneous invention of new, exciting, and ridiculous combinations of mundane and swear words. It was always hard for her to discipline me as a teenager because she’d get on a roll and we’d end up laughing at what had come out of her mouth.

These lovely women also taught me appropriateness. You don’t swear in front of kids, in public where others can hear you, etc, etc. You have to be able to “flip a switch” and turn it off completely.

I cannot stand seeing cuss words on bumper stickers, clothing, signs and the like. It’s disrespectful of others and selfish. It’s bad manners. It’s uncouth and self-centered. Having a sign like that on an ice cream shop is beyond the pale, imho.

My sister, who is the black sheep (evangelical, hard core republican, health nut, not really interested in music or art... we can’t figure out where she came from, but Mom swears she remembers giving birth to her) does not like cussing. It sincerely bothers her. That’s fine. We “turn it off” when around her. I cannot imagine how distressed she would have been if she had seen a banner at an ice cream shop with the F word on it, especially back when my nieces and nephew were kids.