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) > >