How To Ask Your Father-In-Law To Pass The Potatoes During Thanksgiving Dinner Without Revealing That At That Very Moment, Your Crew Is Breaking Into His Safe Room To Steal His Original Christ In The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee By Rembrandt Van Rijn

Ask him to pass the potatoes in the same calm voice you used earlier to ask your brother-in-law to pass the cranberry sauce

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The trick here is to ask in as casual a way as possible so that he only thinks you want him to pass you the potatoes, and not in a way that suggests that your crew is at that very moment breaking into his safe room to steal his original Christ In The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee by Rembrandt van Rijn.

Do not say anything about his original Christ In The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee by Rembrandt van Rijn before, during or after he passes you the potatoes: this may make him think you’d like him to take you upstairs to the safe room for a private viewing of the painting, and that would interrupt the theft taking place at that very moment by your crew.

Ask him to pass the potatoes in the same calm voice you used earlier to ask your brother-in-law to pass the cranberry sauce while your…