Well, Hidey-Helly- Lo There to You, Too!

[sisabet]

Yesterday, spinning off the "goodness" post, I decided, after discussing with elynross, to try *not* cursing for a solid week, just to see what pops out of my mouth instead.

I had no idea it would be this hard - or that I would constantly forget and then remember and be all "oops!" I was like Al taking tea with Alma.

So, in my first day attempting not to swear, I've already racked up an online "ass" and "hell" and also a "crap" but in my defense - I rarely say "crap" because it is like a teeny tiny swear word and I like its big brother so much more. So I am allowed crap. Crap is not a bad word.

I don't think I cursed on the phone with Mom, earlier, but since we were discussing fire and Smallville, I could easily have let slip a "hell" or "damn."

At the office I have bit off two "hells" and one "damn" and I just now pointed and yelled at the phone and called it a "frickety-frack-freller!" because I was angry at a caller who had just hung up. I actually yell at my phone a lot. I deal with a lot of stupidity every single day. I *have* to yell at something.

This plan, rather than making me more creative, is in danger of turning me into Ned Flanders.

Comments

[timba.livejournal.com]

I used to work as a waitress at a family restaurant. Cause there were so many kids there all the time, I tried to cut back on my swearing.

I started saying "monkey!" instead of cursing. It worked, but now that I don't work there anymore, people at the office look at me kinda oddly when I shout.

:/

[darlingboys.livejournal.com]

I must say I truly enjoyed your post yesterday regarding "Goodness!" I've been trying to scale back on the cursing myself as I'm amazed ny how often I use various curse words as normal every day adjectives. (Very bad of me as I have two school age parrots) Maybe next time I'm tempted to yell "shit!" I'll let fly with "merciful Zeus!" instead in honor of Xander. I've also heard folks say "Christ on a crutch!" but maybe that's just a Northern expression not unlike "shaking like a dog shitting razor blades" or "it's raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock". *grins*

I wonder how Ned Fladers would say "Hells Bells!" *ponders*

[deaver.livejournal.com]

Your no swearing vow is very amusing. And you probably wouldn't even have as much a desire to say certain things if you weren't trying to NOT say them. It's like when you have a mosquito bite, and you know you shouldn't itch it, but the more you think about not itching, the more you want to. Hee.

I like you theory about crap. Not sure that it's 100% valid, but it's a good theory.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Actually, no - I don't yet *want* to curse. I am more anxious that I will forget that I am not cursing and will let something slip anyway (as I have already demonstrated). I don't feel oppressed at all - which is good cause otherwise I'd just abandon the entire enterprise.

[elynross.livejournal.com]

I think this is an *excellent* exercise in self-discovery, whatever the result! *g*