I don't forget what I used to do and so I can't justifiably say to my kid, "Don't you do that," when I used to do it myself.
I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason.