Soap or the Belt

Gotta ask: Ivory, Lava, or (shudder!) Irish Spring? ;)

Never got the soapy mouth treatment, but, then, as 4th of 5 kids, I learned by watching what got the older ones in trouble, and how not to get punished. I was a good boy, but still got the business end of Dad's belt a couple of times, just because. But no soap.

I didn't really bust out in bad words, anyway, until the day at the lake when my step-brother threw a huge rock that didn't make it to the lake but landed instead smack on top of my head. It was like a door opened. I said words I didn't even know I knew. (With grown-ups within earshot, no less.) Somehow, on that one, I got a pass.

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