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Q: Dinner etiquette question?

So, we're sitting an having dinner. A mosquito lands on my mother in laws forehead. What to do. 

 

Do I smack it, do I let it bite her, do I tell her? I was torn. 

 

If you could pick between only these two options, what would you pick ?

1. Smack her

2. Let it bite

 

Having picked 1 or 2, do you realistically see other options ? 

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Tell her there is a 'Japanese' mosquito on your forehead needs to be smacked. She will strike her head to the dinning table'.

 

Tell her simply.

Scandinavian:

you didn't pick 1 or 2 !!!

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thefidu881:

I picked 'other' option. If limited to 1 and 2, I ll pick 2 being afraid of retaliation. You can't explain in case of 2.... :) 

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xinyuren:

haha, japanese mosquito.  she might stab her forehead with a knife.

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From other threads your MIL sounds like a bad person, let it bite her then smack her,

Stiggs:

Yeah I like that option too.

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My Mil would whip it off her forehead with her tounge before it had a chance to bite.

Hotwater:

What's a tounge? Is your MIL a lirazd?

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ScotsAlan:

Not sure. But she has some strange double eyelid thing going on.

 

And she closes her eyes to swallow...

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DrMonkey:

When she walks to the market, she always put her forked tongue in and out of her mouth.

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How often do you think you can use the mosquito trick to smack her?

Scandinavian:

I was thinking pretty often. I just need a drop of ketchup on my hand once in a while, so it looks like I killed the bugger. (mosquito that is) 

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3. Creative usage of those electric mosquitoes frying racket things.

Scandinavian:

it's not strong enough, I accidentally zapped the dog once, thus had to try it myself to see what amount of treats I needed to make it up to the dog. It's far from anything that could be "useful" on the MIL. I only gave the dog half a meatball (Scandinavian style) for his troubles. 

Maybe...... IS THERE AN ELECTRONICS ENGINEER IN THE ROOM.... the thing could be supercharged to work more like a tazer than a fun way of killing small flying bugs. 

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DrMonkey:

I think the high-voltage is made with a capacitor. Replace the puny capacitor with a supercapacitor, and your mosquito frying racket might work on larger lifeforms.

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of course number two first, and then number one... smiley

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