[Growltigger]

Gryphin,

That statement is proof that you are as mad as a badger that accidentally reversed backwards onto a hedgehog after slipping down a muddy slope!

If the wife goes shopping in New York without me, the following consequences will occur:

1 I will not be there to vet what she spends, I dont really want to take a second mortgage following her excesses;

2 I will be in the doghouse for not being available to say "yes, dear, it looks lovely on you, cerise is really your colour and is oh so appropriate for aunt mabel's funeral";

3 she will come back with loads of crap we dont need, or more importantly, cannot fit in the house;

4 she will buy 200 pairs of expensive shoes;

5 she will get lost, and probably end up in Washington or somewhere; and

6 it will cost me too much to bail her out of prison for assaulting a police officer!