10:07 PM

Shhh..

I'm not sure why, but I am totally embarrassed to write about this topic. However, I am being bullied into it, so here it is. I'm going to let you in on where the term "having shoe" is from. In my family, as in alot of families, we weren't allowed to swear or use "offensive language". (My mom thinks shut up and stupid are swear words.) I don't know if I have ever heard my dad cuss a day in his life. And I know my mom doesn't swear because she just doesn't know any of those words. Anyways.

I still remember this from when I was a kid. When we talked about "having shoe", it meant sex. In most cases, it meant animals mating. *cough* So instead of saying "Those dogs are totally doing it in our front yard!" we would say "Those dogs are having shoe!" Everyone in my famiy used this term, including my parents. Anything else was just too dirty, I guess. I don't know who came up with the term, probably my dad, but I for as long as I can remember that's what we would say. It's funny, because even saying "shoe" or "having shoe" was taboo. I still hear it to this day and think to myself "Shh! Don't say that so loud, someone might hear you!" Maybe I should call this post "My Miseducation - Part 2." :P

I remember the first time I said "shit". It was in elemetary school, and someone had graffitied it in the back. It was during recess and these girls asked me what it said. Since my upbringing was so innocent, I had no idea what it was or what it meant. So I read it outloud, and they started giggling. Then one of them asked if I had been baptized. Haha, what the crap. I also learned the word "damn" from the Simpsons. I remember that I was sitting in the kitchen, and I looked out the window and it had started snowing. So I said "DAMN, it's snowing!" really loud, and my dad totally freaked out. "Where did you hear that? Don't even say that again!" Etc. etc.

Have you seen Hocus Pocus? You remember the part where Max and his little sister go to that girl's house, the girl that the guy has a crush on? I think her name was Alison. Well, there is a big pot of candy in the front room. They are standing at it and his little sister says something about the Alison's "yabbos" and how much Max likes them. I remember watching this movie with my dad, and just to see what he would say, I asked him what yabbos were. He said "I think it's candy." Haha. I'm laughing as I am writing this.

I asked my dad once what it meant when someone flipped you off. I still remember exactly what he said. "It means you will have shoe with someone you don't like." Maybe he's right and we're the ones that are wrong.

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