While chatting Anne up one afternoon, I mentioned a strange little phenomenon in my daily life. The pre-school carpool. The fact that, when the truck door slams after the last child is securely loaded, the interior noise level explodes and it is a race to see how many times, in how many ways each can use the ‘off-limit’ words. Words like stupid and dummy. Butt and butthead. Poop and, of course, poophead. It’s only a 10-minute ride to school, but they’re committed to filling every last second with their own version of five-year-old shits and giggles.
I allow it. Everywhere else, home included, those words are not allowed. What’s 10 minutes of racy fun going to hurt?
Got me thinking though. So I asked Anne when and if it ever ends. This obsession with gross, ewwww words and images. She laughed. Then told me it only escalates. Nice.
Lori confirmed this. In the interest of chronology (in age), we’ll move from my boy to hers—they are 10 and 12. The youngest still uses poop, butt, etc. And his favorite joke is the same one he told when he was 3. Knock knock. Who's there? Poo poo butt. She notes, we laughed our asses off when he was 3. Not so funny now.
Lori’s oldest is into the most derogatory terms he can use without getting in trouble. So he'll say shithead, but he'll say the "shit" part so low that you can't really hear it so they can't ground him. Smart kid, LOL.
Moving forward in time to Anne’s boys—16 and 17 years old. She happily pointed out that their favorites include loser, douchebag and numbnuts.
So, coming out of my naïve fog, I have another question. Do GIRLS have similar pursuits?
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The Chronology of Ewwww
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Oh, seriously, LMAO!!! I can only imagine what words they use when I'm not around, you know, the ones that involve swears. Sigh. But OMG, boys, they just don't seem to outgrow the "words"... at least not so far. LMAO. This is too funny to actually see from youngest to oldest. hee!
I don't know aboust most girls and outgrowing. Mine have their moments with potty humor, and I really thought it would have come to an end by now *sigh*. If I never hear the word Fart again...I could live with it.
LOL - Jeff's also a master at disguising "dumbfuck". Because I have a hearing loss, he's great at mumbling this one and when I say "What did you just say?!" in that Mom voice, he says "Just scum sucker" or "dumb sucker" or something along those lines. Like I'm not an expert lip reader. Idjut, I tell you. I'm raising idjuts. But he's really cute :)
I'm counting on my daughter's natural glee in correcting me to keep the words out of her vocabulary. She's a police woman at heart. I just have to say "dang it!" and I get in trouble. I think she knows all the words because she's so involved policing them.
Okay, that's probably not the right attitudee but it works for us. btw she is nine.
You all have me laughing and groaning at the same time! Count yourself lucky Gail - the potty humor Mechele references can more than get on your nerves. I'm thinking now that I'm in for a lifetime of it, LOL.
Trust me, girls aren't any better.
Mine doesn't indulge in the poo poo butt type but she has her own unique way of annoying mama.
My daughter is 11 and she delights in using swear words when I'm not around. I've heard her say bitch at least 5 times, with just the wrong amount of relish in her voice for my liking. LOL
Recently my mother-in-law took them to "Donkeyland", a small town in AZ where donkeys run free in the town. Apparently all the stores and such have the word Ass in them. Like Jackass General Store and all that. They haven't stopped since. "We saw the jackASS store, mom" "Mom, guess what? There's an ASS store" "Hey grandpa, guess what? We saw ASSes and Ass stores."
This from both my 11 year old daughter and my 9 year old son. I can only imagine how it's going to be as they get older.
I'm totally cracking up about the boys. LOL
Oh, Holly, that reminds me of the fun my boys had with the dam beaver email that made its way around a few months back. You know, the one where the guy wrote the letter about the dam beavers, and every other word was "dam beavers"? Lord have mercy, I thought we'd never hear the end of the dam beavers. Any excuse to swear without punishment LOL!
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