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This happened long before my family had ever heard of ADHD, or learned that Mom and I both have it…
When I was about 8, we took a trip to British Columbia. Mom & Dad rented a car, and Dad drove us all over the place.
One day, we’d stopped at a Dairy Queen, and were devouring our treats in the car as we roared down the Trans-Canada Highway. My Peanut Buster Parfait was so big that it melted before it was even halfway done. I didn’t want to finish it, so Dad told me to pass it forward to Mom, so she could throw it out the window.
Now, we’d been a boating family ever since I was 3, and one of the first things you learn on a boat is, never throw anything INTO the wind, because it’ll come back, all over you. But, in the heat of the moment, Mom forgot this most basic bit of knowledge.
She threw the cupful of melted brown sludge FORWARD, and it instantly blew back and covered the sleeve of her WHITE sweater, from wrist to shoulder. She was so enraged that she blurted out the first word that popped into her head: “SH*TTYF**KIN!”
We’d never heard a compound-swear-word before, and certainly not that one. We kids exploded with laughter. And Dad had to pull over, because we (and he) were laughing so hard, we couldn’t breathe.
Mom, on the other hand, was so angry that she got out of the car and stomped around at the side of the road, yelling out her new word, over and over. And guaranteeing that it would become a permanent part of our vocabulary.
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