Store High In Transit

Going back through my old blogs, of which there are less than 2 dozen, I saw a post written by my dad (Paul) in which he referred to "store high in transit". Some of you probably don't know that that is where we got one of our culture's favorite swear words.
When sailors had to go on long trips they couldn't freeze their meat, they had to bring the live animal, well all of the feces would create ammonia which caused sailors to get sick and in alot of cases perish. The sailors had to scoop it up and put it in crates until they could dispose of it on land. They finally found that if you put the animal waste up high people wouldn't get sick, hence the term "S. H. I. T. - Store High In Transit".
Often times that seems the most appropriate, or should I say most used, word that comes out of our mouths when you jam your finger in a drawer or almost drop a bowling ball on your toe or get knocked on your butt in the dirt. It's what we use in the expression, "S--t hit the fan". That happened to me, and getting a faceful of it is not fun but sometimes that's the best wake-up call. So the next time you go to ask/tell someone to not say that remember that it just means "Store High In Transit" (that allowed my dad to use it ;P)