I DOUBLE-TRIPLE DARE YOU
Nacy Greggs lays a powerful major dare
With a little fast-talk, you could usually walk away from a dare without losing the respect of your peers, especially if it involved kicking your elementary school principal in the backside in full view of your fellow students, or shaving your kid sister’s head the night before picture day.
In such instances, the dare-ee could garner the sympathy vote, while the dare-er was vilified for setting out a challenge deemed to be (a) impossible or (b) one that carried adult-administered consequences beyond the endurance of even the bravest eight-year-old.
But to walk away from a double-triple dare meant being labeled a wimp forever, and your only hope of escaping a lifetime of shame was to beg your parents to pack up and move to another town – preferably on the other side of the country. more
on the GOP, who are certain to be labelled wimps forever.
