Show of hands! From childhood experience, who knows what soap tastes like?

[Richardo]

:hi:

My mom was a big proponent of the 'wash your mouth out with soap' school when she heard a distasteful word or phrase from the mouths of one of her boys.

I learned the lesson after two applications: "NEVER use profanity ..... within earshot of Mom." :)

[sniffa]

1. Like crack cocaine

[SheepyMcSheepster]

2. /me raises hand.

[politicaholic]

3. My mum actually had different soap just for that purpose...

She must have gone around a soap store sampling the stuff.

I still curse like a sailor though.

[histohoney]

4. Hand Up

Mom kept a bar of Ivory soap just for potty mouth occasions.:hi:

[terrya]

5. Um, er....

I used to taste my dad's shaving lather when I was a wee little boy. And not because of a potty mouth. Seriously.

I was a weird little kid, sometimes. :-)

[Richardo]

6. HA! Did you think it was going to taste like whipped cream?

:hi:

[terrya]

8. Yeah...I did.

Good times, Richardo. Good times. :-)

:hi:

[billyskank]

7. I used to taste car battery acid

Straight up. That stuff is sour!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. *hand up* I know what soap tastes like...icky...

I distinctly remember getting my mouth washed out with soap more than once, but not for swearing...Just for being so rebellious and defiant. The punishment NEVER stopped me. I'm still quite the rebellious one; my mouth is still getting me in trouble! Some things NEVER change. And my mouth is one of them, lol!

To this day, I hate getting soap in my mouth when showering...that early imprint did the trick.

:kick:

[Richardo]

12. You're right - we got it for lying too...

...not just swearing.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. For me, it was just being defiant and sassy...

I could not lie to save my life...Still can't, most of the time! I have to concentrate and work hard to lie effectively. It's too hard, and so I normally don't bother...lol

[Parrcrow]

10. Chicken?

Does it taste like really really clean chicken?

[Richardo]

13. Chicken marinated in soapy water, yes.

x(

[Taxloss]

11. I have tasted the soap.

Out of innocent curiosity, though, not punishment.

[chickenscratching]

14. ditto

i think i tried LAVA soap...mmmm

[Richardo]

17. Crunchy!

:9

[Taxloss]

20. Well, you don't stay curious long. I think "Imperial Leather"

was my brand/flavour.

[SnowGoose]

15. Not for swearing - but calling mom's bluff!

We were coming home from the grocery store, and I was lobbying for a food stop before dinner.

"No," she said. "We're going home and having dinner now."

I didn't want to wait, so I declared that if we didn't stop RIGHT NOW I would take a big bite out of a bar of dial soap that I had grabbed from the bag (why the soap, I have no idea!).

My mom chuckled and said "You be my guest."

Well, I had to call her bluff, didn't I? I still don't buy dial soap (and that had to be 30 years ago now). I could have avoided a lot of unplesantness if I had listend to my mom more.

[Richardo]

18. LOL! "Be my guest"

Big danger sign there. :D

[johnnie]

16. I got used to it

My mother stopped using it when I wouldn't make the face anymore.

[LynneSin]

19. I know, but only because I got soap in my mouth by accident

I'm such a Ralph Wiggams

[Redstone]

21. Mrfl grshtl grafrem snrg

Yes.

Redstone

[Susang]

22. My mom did wash my mouth out several times

For "sassing back". I now "sass back" on a regular basis and swear like a longshoreman, often in front of her.

That kind of punishment rarely works. She tells me she regrets doing it and that the only reason she did it in the first place is that it's what her mother did to her and she says at the time, she didn't know any better.

It's my goal to get her to say "shit" or "fuck" one day. She almost said "shit" once, but changed it to shoot in mid-word! }(

[Richardo]

23. I still remember the first time I heard my mom say "shit".

I was probably 10-11. She dropped a casserole taking it out of the oven.

Traumatized me, I can tell you. :)

[NoSheep]

25. Meeeeeee!

[Spirochete]

26. Raising hand

I got pretty familiar with the taste of Ivory soap in my childhood. That becamse my way of determining what words were cool to use. If I said a word to my mother, and was immediately force-fed a bar of soap, then this was a word that would enhance my social stature among all the other little urchins on the playground.

[5thGenDemocrat]

27. What do you mean "from childhood experience"?

I myself still enjoy the piquant taste of soap from time to time.
John
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