So we go shopping today and I happen to mention, as we're wandering the aisles at the local warehouse club, that my shorts are a bit loose; both kitten and I have lost some weight recently.

No sooner am I reaching for something on a high shelf, than kitten grabs those shorts and gives them a tug. Now, she says she just wanted to startle me and wasn't expecting that the shorts were that loose, or that she'd have hold of the underwear underneath and those would be that loose, or that they'd come down quite so far.

None of this really mattered to me as I stood there with my arms up, shorts and underwear down to mid-thigh, with frank, beans and buns waving in the wind.

Curiously, I've never explicitly told kitten that she isn't allowed to pull my pants down in public, so she wasn't really disobedient. And she says she didn't mean for all that to happen. And, of course, kitten's a bit of a sea lawyer and she's going to argue that she should only be responsible for the intentional part of the infraction -- a bit of a tug to startle me that would get her, at worst, a smack on the bottom in admonishment -- and not the entirely unforeseeable and accidental result.

I, on the other hand, as the exposed party, feel that certainly the excessive exposure was a clearly foreseeable risk of the action in question and, therefore, is fully punishable in its entirety. One is, after all, responsible for the actual results of one's actions and not just the intended.

Decisions, decisions ...