12 thoughts on “The look first, then the soap next, I guarantee that.

  1. Depends on the word used….some words get more than the look and the soap.

    Ask me how I know this…

  2. One time when I was about five years old I had a neighbor kid who’s first name was the same as my middle name and we hung out all the time. He let loose with a cuss word and his mom heard him. She yelled his name at him and told him to quit cussing. My mom heard her but thought she was yelling at me. Mom grabbed me and drug me into the house and into the bathroom, grabbed my toothbrush and a can y Ajax bathroom scrub. She poured a bunch of that shit on my toothbrush and proceeded to scrub my mouth out with it despite my desperate cries innocence. Something you will never forget as long as you live.
    As you can see it wasn’t quite the deterrent she thought it was but you can damn well bet that I made sure she never heard me after that.
    And you wonder why I think kids these days are pussies.

  3. The soap only helped me enunciate the cuss words more clearly…especially when I commented that the soap tasted like shit.

    • and your still alive? I would not be for something like that. My mom would rake the soap up under my top teeth.

      • Oh, I damn sure got the belt, brush, switch…whatever was at hand after that. I didn’t tell her I would rather be beating than the soap.

  4. When I got back from Viet Nam, we didn’t even get out of the terminal before whatever illusions my Mother had about my childhood innocence remaining intact were thoroughly obliterated.

    Oooopsie!

  5. I was pissed at one of my brothers and ranting about him to my mother when I referred to him as a “son-of-a-bitch”. That got the look …

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