excuses, excuses

Right at the end of the day as we were cleaning up one of my new scrapbooking friends yelled out, "_____ said a bad word!"

_____ immediately looked me in the eye and said, "But I used it in a sentence!"

While that is a far better excuse than, "it was an accident!" I was clearly not very impressed. Especially because the sentence turned out to be, "What the ____?"