nyrisa
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ORIGINAL: eyesopened When my offspring started using curse words i sat them down and gave them a senario to think about when speaking with people outside their peer group. Imagine you are making funeral arrangements for your mother or close relative and the funeral director says: "I'm so f***in sorry for your loss. To make s*** easier for the family we offer some f***ing affordable funeral packages that will allow you to send the bitch out in style without breaking the g**damn bank." Would you really want to do business with this person? Then just don't BE that person. I just love that example! What a great way to make the point. To the OP: I work in the medical profession, and sometimes stress and situations can irritate the heck out of me. I just subsituted words that I did not mind using.... like, "oh, shinola", "well, fudge!" or if it was really bad, "Oh, fudgepuppies!"; And if I felt a "stream of consciousness" swear session coming on, I'd take the first word and turn it into a song that I'd sing under my breath until I got myself under control. For instance. "GOD...bless America, land that I love, stand beside her, and guide her......" etc; There were probably some doctors who thought I enjoyed working alongside them because I hummed under my breath the whole time. I found that humming a song does the same purpose as the counting to 10 thing for keeping my temper under control, with the added benefit that the silliness of the situation made me smile.
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A true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires. Robert Heinlein The last thing I want to do is hurt you...but it is still on my list.
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