"well . . tell you what. curley’s like a lot of little guys. he hates big guys. he’s alla time picking scraps with big guys. kind of like he’s mad at ‘em because he ain’t a big guy. you seen little guys like that, ain’t you? always scrappy? "

Mike and his wife, amanda, are arguing about his in-laws. mike doesn’t want them to visit because they fight all the time when they come to the house and he is worried about the effect that their fighting is having on mike and amanda’s children. amanda finally yells out: “what about our fighting? ” mike replies, “well, that’s different. we fight because we’re having a disagreement, they fight because they hate each other! ” this is an example of