Re: [CH] The proper punishment

Firehouse (firehouse@kissalive.com)
Fri, 21 Jun 2002 08:14:37 -0700

Lurk mode off:

What crime? That your sauce, that you didn't place somewhere safer than the
front of the fridge broke? To hold a sauce in higher regard than your
daughter? I'd hate to live in your house if you get wound up over a broken
bottle and are looking for punishment! If it were me I'd break all your
bottles just to see you implode! ;-)

"NO PUNISHMENT!"

Lurk mode  back on.


> I de-lurk again for sage wisdom and advice on the appropriate penance
> for the following infraction.
> College age daughter breezes through the kitchen door last night at 9:15
> and like all good teens makes a bee line for the refrigerator door.  She
> flings it open with such gusto and and lack of care that she dislodges
> a  bottle of Brianna's Chipotle Cheddar sauce/dressing which then
> explodes on the kitchen floor sending glass and chipotle/chedder sauce
> all over the place.. After the predictable scramble to get the dog away
> from the sauce and glass, in mitigation for the offense, she did clean
> up the mess.  That said there remains the matter of  the chipotles who
> died in vain and the sauce that will never (sniff, sniff) reach its full
> potential, murdered as it was in the prime of life.
>
> I told her ( with a diabolical smile) that I would place her fate in the
> hands of the Chileheads to decide the just penance for such a heinous
> crime :} and thus I turn to you, dear friends.
>
> Jim (the chilehead lawyer to distinguish from other more venerable Jim's
> among us)
>
>