As a child, I never really heard the word [Fuck] by itself; I heard it as Mother Fucker. When I asked my mother what it meant, she said it was a very bad thing; a mother fucker has sex with his mother.

I thought: oh, cool. So to fuck is to have sex? Neat. I knew something that the other kids didn't know.

Flash forward to an uninvited call from some jerk with a bad reputation at school demanding that I give him my best friend's phone number. When I refused, he yelled, "Fuck you, then!"

Smug, thinking he was using a word he didn't even understand, thinking that he was in the dark about the meaning as I was a few weeks previous, I told him, "Ha! You probably don't even know the meaning of the word."

"What are you talking about?!"

"Fuck," I clarified rather snottily. "When you said to fuck me."

He snorted a laugh and shouted, "Well I sure as hell wouldn't want to fuck you!" ...then he slammed down the phone.

I blinked for a while, before I realized the insult. All I could do at that point was to look at the dead receiver with a sigh and say, "Aw fuck."

-April (as seen at Harrumph!)