> a parent who has made some threat that they never intended to carry through, counting 1, 2, 2-and-a-half, 2-and-three-quarters... As a parent, I've taken thi

> a parent who has made some threat that they never intended to carry through, counting 1, 2, 2-and-a-half, 2-and-three-quarters... As a parent, I've taken this through as far as 2 and 255/256. (Although by that point it had changed from a threat to a math lesson.)