Puberty hit me like a ton of bricks very early, leaving me Dolly Parton-esque at far too young to even understand the crap. I had term "brick shithouse" applied to me at the tender age of 14, but a non-com at the Chief's Club on the Navy base in Florida – a non-com, BTW, who knew who I was and who my father of the same rank as his own, and knew that my father was just a few yards away at a table with my mother and three sisters. He had a daughter my age.

I knew what the term meant as my mother had explained it when my dad used it about a scantily clad actor on TV. I did NOT find it complimentary. I found it scary that he would say that to me.