Mel drops the S-Bomb in this coming of age tale:

Mothers of toddlers will chuckle and whisper stories of how their child said “insert your favorite cuss” for the first time. As much as the parent feels they should be disapproving, “they’re only three, they don’t know what it means.”

Unfortunately, when you’re eight you just get smacked.

We were driving home from the store, my grandfather and grandmother in the front, and my mother in the back with me. The topic of conversation was centered around something clumsy that my grandmother had done. I’m not sure if I had heard the word before and believed it meant “klutz” or heard “klutz” and just mispronounced it, but I giggled and boldly proclaimed, “Grandma, you’re such a slut!” This was the one and only time my parents slapped me. “Don’t ever use that word again!” With tears, “W-w-w-why mommy?”

These days I know the difference between “klutz” and “slut,” as well as a “klutzy slut” (“An accident?! You just slipped & fell onto it?!”)