Carrot and stick, just an old saying?

"Well you know like in Stick and Carrot..."

Aunty Felicity would like an idea like that, especially if she was expecting us to open the present in front of the whole family.

"The old hag would have enjoyed how mother and her other siblings would have frowned. I wonder why she hadn´t put a greeting card into the box..."

She started rummaging in the cardboard box

While her husband-to-be feelt more and more the evil influence coming from the crop taking possession of him and in combination with her words....

....Stick and Carrot.... Stick and Carrot....Stick and Carrot....

Stick!

Again his imagination tricked him and he imagined his wife-to-be in riding attire, the crop in her hands a, very untypical, malicious smile on her beautiful face:

"Chose, what will it be? Carrot or Stick?"

Before the groom kneeling in front of her could utter anything she added:

"Chose wisely...."