Sod Face

I really enjoy listening to accents, at times it even makes me sleepy...very odd, I know. So, I was very happy when we boarded our flight to New York to hear that there were people with English accents sitting right behind us. "Ah, this will be nice, the lovely British accent will put me right to sleep." This did not happen, I repeat this did not happen.

Not long into the flight I got about 2.5 minutes of straight hissing. Seriously, the girl behind me was hissing. Odd, but I have a crooked sense of humor, I get it, sort of. Then, I hear her telling her homies that our flight was brought to us by "birds, big birds with teeth and claw and fangs and.." and then the freaking hissing started again. I tried to peek between the seats to get a look at the girl and her companions that were laughing like it was the funniest thing on the face of the planet, but all I got was a bunch of blonde hair.

I think she fell asleep for a little while, but then about an hour later she started hissing again! At that point, I figured she was drunk. I could give her a little bit of a pass for the high-pitched screech/hiss if she was drunk. UNTIL she started kicking the back of the chair. Enough was enough. I was going to become passive aggressive. I made a point to look back over the chair, the girl was gone and left were the two guys, one of which must have been the one kicking my seat. Oh well, its a flight, what do you do?

Then, we were about 10 minutes outside of JFK and I hear her say, "what would you say if I said you were a sod hmm? Or what if I called you not a sod, but a sodface?" Then her two companions started cracking up like hyenas. Seriously, you would have thought the girl had cracked the funniest joke on the face of the planet. I was intrigued, what in the devil is a sod, let alone a sodface? After she repeated it a few more times and added that the sodface was now brought to us by birds and some hissing for good measure, I heard an adult tell her to shape up. Ah ha! The whole time I thought this girl was drunk, she was in reality, probably 12 years old and these were her brothers. I felt a little bit bad about letting a tween get me irritated, but seriously, who hisses for hours on end? You would think she would have lost buckets of weight just by ridding herself of a few gallons of spit.

I have finally looked up sodface, more particularly sod and I now understand why her brothers were cracking up. She was kind of swearing, right? This is what I found:

Sod - This word has many uses. My father always used to say "Oh Sod!" or "Sod it!" if something went wrong and he didn't want to swear too badly in front of the children. If someone is a sod or an "old sod" then it means they are a bit of a jerk or an old git. "Sod off" is like saying "piss off" or "get lost" & "sod you" means something like "f*** off". It also means a chunk of lawn of course. You can usually tell the difference!


I think that I am going to start using sodface. I've have taken a liking to homey, maybe I'll just insert that instead.