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#1: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Oct 3, 2025 [SPOILER]

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I rememeber looking up from something I was reading and asking my mother, in front of the whole family, what the word rape meant. Only I pronounced it rap.

yikes!

Norma reminded me: I was reading something by Sartre in my French lit. text. There was an English footnote for a word I didn't know: pimp. I asked my roommate, "What is a pimp?" She said, in a shocked voice, "What are you reading!?"

When I was a kid I remember reading a book with a theme about paying attention to you "conscience". I knew the word conscience but had never seen it written. As I read this word I asked myself "what is con-science?" Is it research done on prison inmates? Is that even ethical? Maybe it is experiments done by prisoners. How do you learn to make the best toilet wine? Do con science. My teacher ask "How does the character's conscience affect his behavior?" And I said aloud in class "oh, conscience!"

Norma and Susan, I'll see you and raise you one: I took my daughter to a kid's movie when she was little. Movie theater was full of families. You know how sometimes an entire room of conversation will break at the same time for just a moment? That was when she chose to ask me, clear as a bell, "Mommy, what does sodomy mean?"

What kind of kid's movie were watching that mentioned sodomy? Or was it another word that she was mispronouncing?

My son, when he was a teenager, and I were exploring a new store. He went down one aisle and I another. He had a deep voice that carried well and he asked me, "Do you know what I need? I need some saltpeter." At that time it was being added to the food in the military because they thought it reduced certain urges. He was thinking about fireworks.

**Adult language alert**

Gaynor, this is another one of those moments when a loud crowd suddenly hushes.

A fashionable shirt brand a generation ago was "Faccionable", which a friend of ours always wore. We are eating dinner in a fairly loud restaurant, so my wife's voice was raised, and she pointed out that some guy was wearing <sudden silence> "Faccable!"

There was another time when my son and I were standing on a long line at a grocery store and there were no convenient rocks to hide under when my son with his loud voice asked, "Mom, what's a prostitute?"

So funny!

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