“All the time,” some of you may be thinking, while the rest of you can’t imagine dropping an F-bomb in front of your folks.

Some families are laxer about these things than others, of course, but it was probably difficult to get a sense of whether yours fell into that category without trying your luck — and potentially finding out the hard way that your parents were very much not okay with you casually using some cuss words at the dinner table. Though you might have had more leeway as you approached your 18th birthday, sometimes it isn’t worth the risk.