By the way, if you are not a family member, and want to learn a little bit about the rest of the Dickerson family (and after reading my blog, how could you not?!), I think you should read this post by my oldest brother Michael.
http://obstrepero.us/blosxom/blosxom.pl/journal/20070420.comments
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Sunday, June 03, 2007
Since I figure only my family reads this blog anyway, I can tell the next story.
If you look at the general population of college students, I would say 99% of them go to their first year of college and develop the #2 habit of swearing (second only to getting drunk). Then when they do go home, they have to curb their language and hope their parents don't hear the one thing they seemed to have learned at school -- the art of pulling as many swear words as possible into a single sentence, or sentence fragment. In the Dickerson household, it is not the children that leave for college and take up swearing, it is the parents who apparently have let their mouths take over now that the kids are gone. Case in point.
This afternoon I was sitting in the family room after my weekly Sunday nap, talking to my mom and looking out the window. The dog keeps scratching at the door, and periodically she looks up from her Crossword puzzle to tell the dog to shut up. This happens probably three times. And then on the fourth time, the dog scratches at the door and mom yells "Shut up you damn do---" quickly interrupted quietly by "oh, that did not just come out of my mouth" (or something along those lines).
Me: (after containing my laughter) Forget your kids are home?
Mom: Maybe...
If you look at the general population of college students, I would say 99% of them go to their first year of college and develop the #2 habit of swearing (second only to getting drunk). Then when they do go home, they have to curb their language and hope their parents don't hear the one thing they seemed to have learned at school -- the art of pulling as many swear words as possible into a single sentence, or sentence fragment. In the Dickerson household, it is not the children that leave for college and take up swearing, it is the parents who apparently have let their mouths take over now that the kids are gone. Case in point.
This afternoon I was sitting in the family room after my weekly Sunday nap, talking to my mom and looking out the window. The dog keeps scratching at the door, and periodically she looks up from her Crossword puzzle to tell the dog to shut up. This happens probably three times. And then on the fourth time, the dog scratches at the door and mom yells "Shut up you damn do---" quickly interrupted quietly by "oh, that did not just come out of my mouth" (or something along those lines).
Me: (after containing my laughter) Forget your kids are home?
Mom: Maybe...
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