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One day, Mom was herding all of us kids to go out somewhere. At one point, she called, "Ok, kids, let's all go get in the Big Ass." Our jaws collectively dropped. She had said it!!! We quickly told her she could not say that. She replied, confused, "What, you guys call it that all the time." We corrected her and said she had to put a '-Tro' on the end or it was a bad word! She smiled to herself.
I often wondered what exactly she was thinking when things like this happened. Did she get a quiet chuckle in raising such a reaction from her children? Did she think we were silly for thinking we were so clever? Only she knows, I guess. :)