# Ever sworn without intending to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 23, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-sworn-without-intending-to/276328 "2004-11-23T18:49:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-sworn-without-intending-to/276328/1 "2004-11-23T18:49:54Z")
Have you ever been so shocked and surprised by something that you find yourself swearing without your conscious brain apparently sending the signal to do so? Last time I did this was at college, when my grades were being read out in the final year. I said out loud “f\*\*king hell!”. This is because I had crammed all my coursework into the last week or so and was genuinelly not expecting to get top marks for _all_ of it. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-sworn-without-intending-to/276328/2 "2004-11-23T18:55:09Z")
Hell yeah! ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-sworn-without-intending-to/276328/3 "2004-11-23T20:18:12Z")
WTF are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-sworn-without-intending-to/276328/4 "2004-11-23T20:26:24Z")
I work in a restaurant and last week, during a rush, I was taking a hot glass veggie dish out of the microwave and it slipped out of my grasp and shattered on the floor. Just by reflex I said “Fuckin’ A”, real loud. Loud enough for customers to hear. Oops. I try to watch what I say, but that F word such a big part of my vocabulary. Sometimes I let it slip around my 2 year old and then I have to do damage control for two weeks. Last summer I saw a bunch of ants in our kitchen and I said “Fuckin’ Ants”. and the rest of the day, my boy was walking around singing “Fuckin’ ants, Fuckin’ ants”. :smack: I try, I really do. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-sworn-without-intending-to/276328/5 "2004-11-23T20:29:11Z")
> [@nitroglycerine](#): > > I work in a restaurant and last week, during a rush, I was taking a hot glass veggie dish out of the microwave and it slipped out of my grasp and shattered on the floor. Just by reflex I said “Fuckin’ A”, real loud. Loud enough for customers to hear. Oops. > > I try to watch what I say, but that F word such a big part of my vocabulary. Sometimes I let it slip around my 2 year old and then I have to do damage control for two weeks. > Last summer I saw a bunch of ants in our kitchen and I said “Fuckin’ Ants”. and the rest of the day, my boy was walking around singing “Fuckin’ ants, Fuckin’ ants”. :smack: > > I try, I really do. 😃 This reminds me of the day my 7 and 8 year old nieces learned “dick brain” (not from me). ---
**Author:** ![Alectrona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Alectrona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alectrona)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-sworn-without-intending-to/276328/6 "2004-11-23T20:37:26Z")
In Art class when I was 12, we were in a silent room because everyone was drawing away. My friend stabbed me with a pencil and I said “Shit!” really loudly and the teacher told me off. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-sworn-without-intending-to/276328/7 "2004-11-23T20:37:48Z")
One day I was sitting at my desk and blurted out my usual cussword “dammit sonuvabitch.” I turned around and realized that the Christian lady who probably never said anything as serious as “darn” was standing behind me. :o ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-sworn-without-intending-to/276328/8 "2004-11-23T20:54:56Z")
For some reason my self-editor just turns right off and I end up cussing like a sailor–for no apparent reason–whenever I’m in a room full of kids. I can’t simply say, “I’m thirsty,” as I would under normal circumstances. Instead, “I’m thirsty as fuck.” I looked right at a cherub-faced young student, who was making good-natured fun of my husband, and said, “Hey, I _married_ his goddamn motherfucking sonofabitch shitty-shit-shit ass!” OK, that last one wasn’t entirely true. But I did say ass. To a child. My sister is never going to let me babysit her kids.