> Any more females are often times worse than the guys.
> Women want to be treated like a man (when it suits them) and use that
>sort of language to make them appear cool, hip, with it.  In fact it shows the
> opposite.

I agree 100%; I've observed & determined the same these many thousands of miles to the west & north of yas. . .

> We've had people in parking that use that sort of language and I take
> them aside (the first day) and tell them that sort of language is
>unacceptable.  You would be amazed how quickly they drop that language and tal
> like
> somewhat educated people.
> My captain uses that sort of language all the time.  Ever other word is
> GD, F, etc.  But being a superior officer its not my place to tell him to
> cut it out.

What gets me is how quick anybody will pop out an F-bomb, when you'd expect  them to be more circumspect around a customer. It kind of irks me whebn a  cabbie will use that kind of language -- why does he assume I'm the kind of  person who's fine with that?

But, yeah, more likely just his unthinking habit.

Yup, it's tough with a higher up; you just have to grin(grit) & accept it.

I had an older lady friend (mom of a girl I liked) who was in hospital & cried  to me on the phone over how badly the nurses spoke at the station, just outside her door (like drunken lumberjacks fighting rabid longshoremen, but more of the worst 4-letter words!) 

It ain't right. 

I used that language, as a kid, & as a teen, hanging out with 'the bad crowd',  but I OUTGREW it! But I didn't swear around seniors, elders, or clergy, or my  partents, even at my worst.

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