A Biting Response

Two elderly women were fussing about their husbands over tea one day.

"I do wish my Leroy would stop biting his nails. That makes me terribly
nervous!" the first one said.

"Oh, my Elmer used to do the same thing," the other woman commented.
"But I broke him of that habit real quick."

"What did you do?"

"I hid his teeth!"