I just said bad words a lot

Truly a classic self-harm incident.

I hammered the base of my thumb nail trying to fix the wayward brace on a foot stool.

I apologize. In future I will control my enthusiasm.

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DrWatson · 70-79, M

Ouch!

This calls to mind my Catholic education. I remember a Sister, during religion class in elementary school, actually using the example of hitting one's finger with a hammer as an example of when it's no big deal to use "bad words."

As she put it: if someone says "damn it!", who are they condemning to hell? The hammer? The finger?

So, Mama, feel free to be exuberantly enthusiastic!

Mamapolo2016 · F

@DrWatson I dunno. Do the dispensations of nuns work on back-slidden Baptists? I’m not sure.

DrWatson · 70-79, M

@Mamapolo2016

I looked it up in the manual.

According to subparagraph B of Appendix 3 of Section 37.43.11.....yes!

You're good to go!

Mamapolo2016 · F

@DrWatson You have a MANUAL? That explains so much.

DrWatson · 70-79, M

@Mamapolo2016

Not to brag or anything, but it's in Latin.

Mamapolo2016 · F

@DrWatson The only time I HEARD my mother curse , although heaven knows she’d been provoked many, many times, was when she was sitting at her Singer sewing machine (she made many of our clothes, curtains, etc).

The sewing machine was old and had seen better days, and the feed (the moving plate like a tiny moving walkway) stopped feeding. This caused the needle to stop moving and just stitch many stitches in the same place.

She bent her head over the sewing machine, whispering but nonetheless menacing, and hissed at the machine. “Damn, damn, damn, damn…”

I just tiptoed past lest the curse accidentally hit me.

Mamapolo2016 · F

🫪@DrWatson You’re Illuminati?