On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 18:45:59 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:


Which is more terrifying? Flying bullets & mortar shells, or when you get
The Look from your wife?

Bullets, mortar and RPGs.

My wife knows better. She tried that from the git go and it didn't
work.

At around the age of eight, my son reached the conclusion that his mother
"Look" was hysterically funny, and would collapse laughing when she tried it
on him. By doing so, he took away not just her ammo, but her weapons, boots,
helmet and EVERYTHING. She was helpless. :-)

That's because she didn't do it right. If the child had been
conditioned to know that "the look" was only the precursor to pain or
something equally unpleasant, he would 've learned to respect "the
look" rather than ridicule it.

It's all in the symbolism of it.


Dave