Horse Feathers!

Recently I heard the expression "Horse feathers" in a restaurant.  The older woman who used it was very cute.

I've heard lots of words used as exclamation points. Most of them make me cringe a little inside but this one made me smile.  My children have substituted similar words in places where others might use words that were more harsh.  The problem being the words they chose were similar sounding to the more popular words and sometimes if you are not listening carefully you might miss interpret.  There was no mistaking what the woman in the restaurant said.  It was so refreshing.

Over the years I have worked or just been places where the words used were harsh, crude or just not acceptable.  Generally I've chosen to be else where.  For awhile I heard the one that uses my Heavenly Father's name or his son's name as punctuation.  Then one day I caught myself right before I used that term myself.  I was surprised that I had even thought it, let alone used it.  I thought I had pretty good control over what came out of my mouth, but having heard it repeatedly it had snuck into my vocabulary. 

As I thought about it, I remembered that it is one of the big 10.  I would never consider killing anyone, so I should be capable of keeping an everyday commandment, like not using the Lord's name in vain.

I have since tried not to use words as punctuation.  If I need to though, I think horse feathers would be just fine.