"May I please shoot you?"

We were just reading the story of The Fierce Bad Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. One I have not read before. Essentially, it is of a bad rabbit with fierce whiskers who comes upon a nice rabbit with gentle eyes who has a carrot. The fierce bad rabbit scratches the good rabbit, pushes him off the bench and takes his carrot. The good rabbit runs away sad. A hunter comes along with his gun and spies the rabbit eating the carrot on the bench. Thinking, from a distance, he is a funny looking bird shoots the rabbit's tale and whiskers off. The good rabbit, sadly hiding in a hole, sees the fierce bad rabbit run by, crying with no tail or whiskers or carrot. The End.

Me: "What did you think of that?"

Olivia: "That wasn't very nice."

Me: "I know." (Thinking she was talking about the bad rabbit bullying the good rabbit.)

Olivia: "He should have said, "May I please shoot you?" first."

True enough.