Blow Up The House
Tripp’s wife was watching their four-year-old niece one weekend but had much difficulty controlling her. To Tripp’s wife’s horror, the young girl picked up Tripp’s tobacco pipe and pretended to smoke. Tripp’s wife yelled at the girl, saying, “If you don’t put that pipe down right this minute, I am going to blow up the house!”
The girl did not respond to her threat, so several minutes later Tripp’s wife agressively seized the pipe from her neice’s hand but did not end up blowing up the house that day. Then Tripp’s wife said, “I just can’t seem to get this girl to listen to me.”