Soap

When I was younger, I use to stick out my tongue a lot. I didn’t care what people thought about me and wasn’t aware that my actions were bad or offensive to people. My mother didn’t always use to be bothered by it, but the more I did it, the more she grew annoyed about it. Stores, houses, restaurants, whenever I wanted to be sarastic or I was mad at someone or something because I was a very dramatic and sarastic kid. This came out a lot with my side comments or actions, such as always adding on and being right about things which left a snarky comment before sticking out my tongue.

My mother started to get displeased with it and constantly told me to stop, like a parrot repeating itself, but I didn’t listen to her. My mother would start sending me dirty looks because she was irritated and fed up with it when I stuck out my tongue out in public places such as restaurants. She got annoyed over and over again, and I constanly got under her skin. This was when I was around 6 years old, so I didn’t know better and tested her limits, which went on for awhile. I was an annoying mosquito constantly biting at her skin.

I have a little sister and we use to play around with our stuffed animals pretending they came to life. I loved to be the one in charge of the rules and depised when she didn’t listen so I would always tell her “that’s not how it works” and stick out my tongue. Sooner or later, she would inevitably follow in my foot steps by sticking her tongue out too in certain sitatuions that made her mad. My mother didn’t approve of my sister, E, taking after my bad example of how to act because I was her role model and she didn’t approve.

My dad couldn’t’ve cared less when I stuck out my tongue to him. My dad encouraged my behavior, he was pleased with it and didn’t feel distressed. He would always chuckle and believe it’s funny, which made it funny to me. We both took it as a joking thing and nothing actually serious like clowns at a circus when they did stupid things, like trying to juggle in a weird postion and failing to make themselves look ridiculous in a humorous way. When my father was out in the shed with his friends, I always went outside to bother them. All of his friends had the same humor as my father and told me I was the funniest and most sarcastic kid they’ve ever met which highly raised my ego to continue sticking out my tongue, even though my mother told me multiple times to stop. I never took the hint or never put the thought into mind because I was to caught up in thinking it was the best thing to do in response to something that made me upset.

As time went on, my mother became outraged. Her final break in was when she was arguing with me about dinner. I didn’t like what we were having and she was troubled I wasn’t eating dinner. When I refused to eat the dinner and stuck out my tongue, she grabbed me forcefully by the arm and dragged me into the bathroom. Her tone raised in frustration and reached for the soap. She then pressed down on the soap putting it on my tongue claiming she was, ‘cleaning my mouth.’ She then lied and said if I stuck out my tongue after putting soap on it it would fall out like butter. After that, I stopped sticking out my tongue and had learned my lesson with a huge fear of my tongue falling out leading me into the right direction.

It helped me clear up my sarcastic young self that use to stick out their tongue when they didn’t get their way and I learned to be more respectful, stopping as I grew up. I realize now how humiliating I use to be and how disrespectful I was when I was younger, and I have never done it since. I act on my actions now and know better than to make snarky comments and actions in situations. I have learned from my mother that’s it’s rude to stick out your tongue in situations, and have learned from that mistake, growing up made me mature and be more polite.

“Holding the Soap Bubble” by Wootang01 is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0.