Cato expelled another senator who was thought to have good prospects for the consulship, namely, Manilius, because he embraced his wife in open day before the eyes of his daughter. For his own part, he said, he never embraced his wife unless it thundered loudly; and it was a pleasantry of his to remark that he was a happy man when it thundered.
Life of Cato the Elder
Perfect response, but what was wrong with embracing your wife in public?
My eldest son got on my husband’s (his father’s) case because he supposedly did not hug me enough. All I could think of was what cabbage patch did I find our son in? He clearly isn’t watching what goes on around him.
Cato, who had enlisted at 18 in the Roman legions to fight against Hannibal, was a champion of the austere old virtues that he claimed had made Rome great. He could see the decadence into which the upper classes of Rome were beginning to slide. Hence his war against PDAs by Senators
NFP/FAM during a thunderstorm does make for a happy man.