Cripes

Cripes

I heard a customer use that word the other day. Up to that point, I'd only seen it in print, mostly in comic books that wanted to have a curse word that wouldn't get parents too pissed to read.

He was an older feller with a thick accent I placed somewhere in the Philly/South Jersey area....he reminded me of my grandfather, actually.

He said it in a personal response to a request from a lady I assume to be his wife. He seemed horribly put upon as he said it.

I'm trying to find a way to work it into my lexicon.

That and "Zounds!"