lipidquadcab wrote:
So YOU'RE the reason I'm chopping walnuts today...
To be honest, that is the reason I bought the walnuts.
Just having a disagreement with the wife that the motive for these two actions is probably different for most people. The first one, the motive is that you require the good, that's why you are getting it... in the second, you don't require it, so you are getting it either on speculation that you may need it and it is in scarce supply, or you are getting it just to spite other people who may want it. The effect the first action has on other people is much more a side effect of buying the cranberries than it is the actual motivation for the action. In the second instance, I think there is a lot more ambiguity in the purchase, but I think I would lean more towards dick move than OK.
Of course, I had to drop this argument about twenty seconds into it because this sort of discussion would soon devolve into why I leave my socks on the floor by my desk or why I don't keep the kitchen table cleaned off before I go to bed every night. So I bring the argument to you knuckleheads.