Bikebut, you make a valid point, and I think therefore I should clarify/restate mine. In the context you just described, such a game is no longer what I would consider "graba$$ing", it falls into a different category. Just the same, anything that distracts you too much, or lets you slide into condition white, is a no-no when you're packin'. I know it's easy to slide, and fun to do, but ya gotten be ready for anything in public!
I love my honey dearly, but she is a classic blonde about some things, and lapsing into condition white is one. I'm still working with her on it, but old habits die hard!
Several months ago, we were in a grocery store, done shopping, and carrying our stuff out toward the exit. I noticed a pair of managers to our right, who had backed a suspected shoplifter into a corner as they prepared to apprehend him. He was tall, rangy, and wild-eyed as they closed in on him, and I knew he was about to make a break, and the only thing between him and the exit was us. Kim kept walking, probably reading the receipt, and I turned toward the shoplifter, went into a gunfighter's crouch, and patted my right side. The bad guy saw me, and the look in my eye, looked at my hand, and suddenly slumped, as the male store manager asked him to turn around and put his hands on the wall. He complied, and I quickly caught up with Kim as we left the store.
She never saw any of it. Had she been alone, things could have been terribly different
There is no peace in Condition White!
Papajohn the Protective Paramour
