Me – Can I buy you a drink?
Woman – I think I’d rather have the money.
They say that children are impressionable, that they pickup
everything at an early age. Everything that is except what you want them to
learn or in other words what you don’t necessarily want them to learn.
Now when #1 Son was about 2 years of age, he would listen to
me when I worked around the house, hammering my thumb to the wood or stripping
a screw that wouldn’t move or some jackass driver who cut me off. I would often
vocalize in a vulgar manner: “Son of a bitch!” which of course I learned from
my dad.
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Giving the raspberry |
One Sunday when we went to Mass, #1 son picked up the phrase
which was handed down for generations and sought to modernize it, eliminating
all the words but the most important one: “Bitch”. This earned me poor marks on
both my permanent records for father and husband, as I got chewed out once we
reached the car.
He would suddenly say: “Bitch” and I was at first aghast
then tried to cover-up as if I was a politician. If you notice I didn’t have to
say; “dishonest” since using it in the same sentence with politician is a
redundancy. No matter how hard I tried to get him to stop, he kept repeating it.
“Bitch”. It didn’t help that a bunch of kids caught onto the fact that he was
saying it and laughed. This made him want to say it more. And so he did.

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