I had boughten me some happy.

Hello,

Yes, I understand the awkwardness in my title , but read on.

So, I was at H&M the other day and bought me some happy galore. Scarves, and sweaters, and vests, oh, my! It always works out that when you should not be spending money on frivolous things, everything makes so much sense to buy. At times I would actually think- huh, this will make me happy, I WOULD look good in this, I'm just going to get it, and I would actually, chemically feel that shopping endorphin release in my body-bliss.

Anyway on the way back to the men's section, a despicable 1/6 of the store-arg!, I passed through the baby/kids section and say a tiny pink bracelet on the floor. I doubled back and upon further investigation I realized that it was a medical bracelet for a small baby girl named Shannon. She was born 3 days previously! Honestly parents of Shannon, I believe in looking your best for cheap, as well as the beckoning call of H&M, but isn't that a little young for a day trip to the down town mall?

Since I am on a hiatus from life, when I got home to my parents house I showed my mom what I purchased that day. She received each of my goodies with a "uh-huh" or "well, I guess that's nice", until she saw a purple, v-neck, snap-up cardigan. She said, "And you're sure that's for men." (notice how there is not an inquisitive ? mark after that sentence, but a judgemental period) I had an instant flash of me smothering her with that very sweater that night, but I was really interested on how the sweater would fit into my wardrobe, so I let it slide with a scoff and a cock-eyed, "YES, Mother."

My Mom says "boughten" referring to the past participle of the verb bought. ex. I had boughten it. It always sounded wrong to me and it took my best friend(wad-up Kristy!) to correct her to a pause and to finally just say "purchased....you know what I mean!" She was telling Dad what she had been shopping for that day and said boughten. I naturally corrected her and continued,

"Mom, just because got turns into gotten, that does not mean that bought turns into boughten. Gotten is in the word begotten and that starts with a "b" and rhymes with the word boughten, but that doesn't make it a word either. Bought rhymes with rot, and boughten rhymes with rotten, and that also does not make it a word, especially because one of those is a verb and one's an adjective. It's less work just to say bought, just bought. I'm actually doing you a service, you're welcome. Bought."

Dad was amused with my tangent, but Mom responded that she had learned that in school and had been saying it for years and I and my friend were the only people to feel the need to correct her. Dad said that he had also learned the word, but because of his faith in my superior intelligence, it was probably one of those discarded words like "thee" or "twas". And I emerged victorious. HA, HA!

Previously to writing this, I went to Dictionary.com to see if it was actually was a word, and even though my spell check does not recognize it................it is.

Don't tell my mom.