In my defense, I have this cold/allergy thing going on, and I feel like I have a fishbowl over my head all the time. I’m not entirely myself. But I actually heard myself say this to a co-worker tonight: “You don’t fucking have to put up with that bullshit, Vicki. You need to come down on that bitch with both feet.”
It occurs to me that this is not the way a 48 year old man ought to be talking, not at work. Mind you, I make no apology for my profanity. I am unabashedly profane. But I think this is not the most effective use of profanity. Profanity squandered loses its impact, doesn’t it? If I talk like this all the time, what do I use for shock value? All I have left are words I’d probably rather not use at all, I think. To be more effectively profane, I think I need to be more selectively profane.
Or I could just keep sounding more and more like my grandfather.
Damn straight! What you say makes perfect fucking sense.
Somebody had to say it, gramps!