Naughty mommy
posted in Family, OmegaDotter |In the car on the way home:
"What the heck!" quoth the dotter about something.
"You shouldn’t say that," replies OmegaMom.
"But you say it!"
OmegaMom winces and says, like a wuss, "Well, some people don’t like it."
"You say ‘heck’, and ‘bloody’. ‘Bloody’! That’s gross!"
OmegaMom squints into the twilight, and muses that that particular phrase comes from OmegaGranny.
"And you say ‘dangit’, which isn’t good."
The litany continues:
"And you say ‘God bless America!’"
"Well, that’s actually a nice thing to say!" OmegaMom protests, then adds contritely, "But not the way I say it."
So I pulled into our driveway thinking that my cursing has been toned done quite a bit as a result of having the dotter around. Which, of course, makes me want to say:
Fuck! Fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck!
This was a tag phrase on one list I was on. (Since some people got the emails at work, too, it was generally abbreviated in the subject line, so when an email came in with Re: FFFityF, you knew a rant was coming about kids or spouses or insurance or something equally irritating in life.)
Later on, the dotter hauled out a new February calendar from her backpack, saying, "Miss Grossfalconhome made a new calendar because she screwed the old one up!"
Um. Oh, well. I’m trying to figure out if that one comes from us, or from Miss Grossfalconhome, the student teacher who is now flying solo while Miss Shoetree takes a few months of well-deserved rest, observing from afar. At least the dotter has the formation down pat, so she says "screwed the old one up" instead of "screwed up the old one". Though no doubt the English grammar purists would prefer the latter, the old fuddy duddies.
