When you was a kid, did you ever get your mouth washed out with soap?

Just wondering if this actually happened or if it's just an urban myth.

 

I did, noth a myth.

 

Happened to me multiple times!

 

Here here!!

 

Are you fucking kidding me? I got the soap a lot. Now, 40 years later, my mom realizes that her fruitless effort to prevent me from swearing where a waste of fucking time. And soap. lol

 

Not at all a myth. Got my mouth washed out for being foul multiple times

 

Im assuming you didn’t since you’re asking

 

Yup, and it sucked, but it was better than my dad finding out.

We used to negotiate for the soap lol

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KjxFDGFKhk

 

My cousin did; I witnessed it several times. I didn't start getting profane in mixed company until I was old enough to drive and over 200 pounds, so there wasn't really anything my parents could do at that point; When I was a little kid, I'd hear my dad swear and try to copy him, but I never got in any trouble. Once, when I was like 3, my dad said "Shit!" I tried to emulate him, but I had just started talking in complete sentences, so it came out as "Sit!"

 

Soap was better than the belt.

 

Count me in the yes column.

 

Beat me to it! What kind of soap is bright red, anyway?

 

My wife has done it to our son

 

When we sit around a campfire one day ask me to tell the story of the broken wooden spoon. lol

 

It was a movie prop, but supposedly based on Lifebuoy I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifebuoy_(soap)

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UsQLWnfWqBs

 

I most certainly did. In 1974 at 6 years old I dropped an F bomb close enough for my grandmother to hear. I had a friend who's older brother used that word all the time.

I can tell you that Zest is gag worthy. I can still feel and taste that shit caked on the back of my top front teeth

 

Nope. Never had the pleasure. It was the belt or nothing. Might have been because we were dirt poor and soap was a luxury not to wasted on foul mouthed kids.