Somebody once thought up the idea that if you are mad at anybody and would like to sock him in the nose, count to a hundred, and you'll never do it.
I doubt if anybody has ever tried that, so I do not know if it will work.
But there is one way in which you can save yourself the disgrace of socking anybody in the nose by means of correspondence.
Should you ever be tempted to write a nasty letter, go right ahead and write it. Put into it every unholy invective your imagination can conceive. Lash him or her with every mean expression your invention can create.
Then, when the letter is written, sign it, put it in an envelope, seal it, and address it to yourself. In a few days you will receive the letter.
But in the interim you will have had a chance to cool off and to think it over, and when you open the letter and read it you will actually be so ashamed of yourself that you will write an apology to yourself.
It makes the medicine still more effective if your wife can get the letter first and read it to you.
I doubt if anybody has ever tried that, so I do not know if it will work.
But there is one way in which you can save yourself the disgrace of socking anybody in the nose by means of correspondence.
Should you ever be tempted to write a nasty letter, go right ahead and write it. Put into it every unholy invective your imagination can conceive. Lash him or her with every mean expression your invention can create.
Then, when the letter is written, sign it, put it in an envelope, seal it, and address it to yourself. In a few days you will receive the letter.
But in the interim you will have had a chance to cool off and to think it over, and when you open the letter and read it you will actually be so ashamed of yourself that you will write an apology to yourself.
It makes the medicine still more effective if your wife can get the letter first and read it to you.
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