3 Words to Forget When You Get to Prison

1. Bitch: You don't call anyone a bitch unless you're ready to display how big of one you might be. The word bitch carries a whole 'nother set of definitions behind the walls. There is absolutely no reference to a woman in its use. "You're acting like a bitch," is what substitutes for that.


2. Punk: A punk is neither a rocker or mischievous youth. It is explicitly someone who takes it in the ass. Gay people wind up in jail and they continue doing what it is gay people do. Why wouldn't they? But to be a heterosexual male in prison and be called a punk is the ultimate insult.
   


3. Ho: I think you can understand from the first two words why this one's not accepted either. Use any of them as much as you like, just don't refer to any of your fellow tenants in jail as being one unless you are prepared to fight. When presented with an opportunity to use any of the first three words on this list, you just have to swallow your pride and understand that being ignorant is what placed you in this situation. The person you are contemplating insulting, because he fouled you in a pick-up basketball game, is possibly a convicted murderer serving a life sentence. Convicts, for the most part, have nothing to lose. My three years was a blink of the eye in comparison to most of their sentences. Plus, unlike some of those folks, I didn't have any practice maiming and killing people. Use of these words falls under the "When keeping it real goes wrong" category. (Click here to subscribe to my feed!)