My point, Carol, is that if I generally give my child $2.00 a week for allowance, then it would be "extra nice" of me, one week, to increase it to $3. However, it would not be "mean" at all to keep the allowance where it had been. (Unless you're talking statistics

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"Extra mean," I suppose, would be to swear up and down that nobody's gonna die, and then kill them anyway. Which was always my problem with Tank Endings, actually... but that trend seems to have mostly died out.
PJ