[FamiliarFace]

That’s called cutting off your nose to spite your face.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

What would he do, shoot me? The point is I'm dating the girl, not her father, and as a man with a plan and schedule of my own I'm not going to be taking direct orders from some guy who only periphery to the event, especially when he thinks he's going to scare me into toeing his line.

I would clarify though that I'm not talking about children dating. Back when I was 15 or 16, when the girl's dad said 11 sharp, I usually brought her back in right around 11 or so. Even as the punk I was then, I understood that it was perfectly reasonable for a dad to keep track of his 15 year old daughter. If I had encountered the gun-cleaning act, though, I probably would have found some way to thumb my nose at the guy.