Mar 04, 2010

Did you ever get in trouble for saying a bad word?

It only happened maybe once or twice and after that it was easier to withhold the word than it was to get the soap out of my mouth. Mom did strictly believe in using soap to wash out ones mouth for saying a bad word and I didn’t like the taste of it at all. I still puzzle to this day why Clair had a swearing problem but he must have been able to evade the soap treatment or just liked the taste. He even was told by dad that if he would stop then dad, a hardened rancher, would also stop. None of us knew about that challenge until we were listening to Clair as he spoke at dad’s funeral. He said then “I wish I would have stopped then.” Clair, as far as I know has not sworn for many years. So, yes, I must have said a bad word even though I can’t remember what the word was, I can remember the taste of soap. Even now if a word happens to slip just as it did when the truck pulled in front of me when I was going 50 miles an hour straight to ward where he was pulling, I feel bad and wish that I could take it back.