Hearing What You Say

I played pool with a little boy I watch tonight and everytime i missed the pocket I would say "dang it" or something along those terms. After a while everytime the boy would miss he would say "dang it" . I decided to have an experiment and so everytime I missed I would change what I said to "drat", "darn it", "dang it", "aw man" and such. And funnily enough he would say whatever phrase I said without really thinking twice about it. I found it a little amusing and also interesting that words can spread from person to person really quickly. We need to really watch what we say, especially around the people we know who look up to us or respect us. Later on what we say will bite us in the face when a child or your own kid comes up and calls somebody a "frigin idiot" because they got mad.