Language
I occasionally have talks with the younger generations about language. I had trouble with bad language, which seems odd in hindsight. As a young man, even through college, I abhorred foul language, even going so far as to rarely use the word "damn" and never any harsher word. Then I worked for a few decades in a chemical plant, quite often out in the Units with rough, tough language-crippled individuals who seemed to compete to speak with foul adjectives and expletives. Before I even knew it, I slipped into using many of those words myself. Not at home, not in front of my children, but certainly in the Units among my fellow workers. I even began to think so little of my words that I used them to descriptively berate a piece of software while among colleagues while in the company offices. Next thing I knew, I was in the Plant Manager's office where he informed me that he placed a permanent record of a complaint about my language in my personnel file. As I left his office,