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Dee Phee's avatar

My brother had a funny experience concerning a delivery truck driver. The driver added so many swears to the conversation it slowed the whole message down so it was like interpreting someone with a heavy accent. When he spoke back without swears the conversation went so fast the driver was struggling to keep up.

Swearing is similar to tattoos. Unless they are beautiful or vulgar no one notices much anymore

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Brandon Wilborn's avatar

There was an old comedy bit (can't remember who) about the guy's dad sounding like an idiot because he could never finish a complete sentence when he got mad at his kids.

Life and art crossovers everywhere.

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J.R. Heimbigner's avatar

I was just talking with my girls 11, 9 and 4 about swearwords. One of them was talking to a girl in her ballet class and the girl said she knew every swear word under the sun. My oldest was like, “I don’t understand what that is” so we had a long chat about it. This article is very timely in my fatherhood journey.

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Brandon Wilborn's avatar

We had that experience a couple years ago with some neighborhood boys. That was also my experience. I'd heard it in movies by that age, but it wasn't until another kid was doing it that I picked it up.

I'm impressed she made it to eleven before getting some exposure. It's tough to protect their innocence these days. Good job.

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J.R. Heimbigner's avatar

Haha, we live in the country and home school. Makes it a touch easier I feel like.

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Brandon Wilborn's avatar

Yeah, that might help.

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