Spray bottles can work wonders. For many years our large extended family Thanksgiving dinners always degenerated into heated political discussions. One year I announced in advance I would bring a squirt bottle. I said I would spray in the face anybody who began speaking politics. On that Thangsgiving I showed up with a heavy-duty spray bottle. As we were seated I put it next to my plate. Everybody looked at it. There were no political discussions that year, nor since. I didn't even need to use it.
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