my mom told us last summer about how her lola used to swear when she found out my mom followed her to the market (she pointed at a little girl clinging to the back of her parents’ suitcase and said, ‘i think i looked kind of like that, hanging off the back of the tricycle’)
when her lola arrived at her destination and turned to see my mom next to her, she’d stomp her feet and say various ilocano words, which my mom didn’t quite get bc her family spoke mainly tagalog, and my mom was probably close to my age when her nursing friends in detroit told her that ‘ukininam’ roughly translates to ‘motherfucker’
then her lola would give her a little money to buy candy, to keep her occupied and out of trouble of course, which is why my mom followed her in the first place probably
tl;dr lola was a foul-mouthed smoker lol