Just have her read all the creative replies. She will be rolling on the floor laughing with the tensest stomach muscles ever. Creating an endorphin rush only a smoked hab could surpass. If that is a reward or a punishment I really don't know. Kris /who is happy to see that it seems to be a CH thing to truly love one's kids... On 21 Jun 02, Jim Nelson wrote: > 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) >