May 292008
C: Sal – what are you doing?
S: Not poking Chapo in the eye.
C: Ha. Okay. Well, then what were you doing?
S: [Long pause.] Nothing.
C: Sal, you can tell me what you were doing.
S: [Medium pause.] Sorry Chapo.
Update: For clarification – it looked like Sal was definitely trying to poke Chapo in the eye. And his attempt at disguising what he was doing was simply prefixing what he was doing with a “not” – as the should surely hide his true intentions. In the end, I couldn’t get him to confess, but I did reassure him that I still loved him and that he could always tell me what’s on his mind.