Well, if you ask a trigger question to a guy or gal under the age of twenty-five, it typically means aggravation, anxiety attacks, etc. It means they have to think about the question, the possible answer, the path between the two, and a weight of stress (to be determined).
In the old days, you'd drive up to some neighbor's house, sit on the deck or patio or front porch....then get to the sensitive question of whatever happened to 'Uncle Waylon', and there would be this sixteen minute story of how he got into law-trouble, did four weeks of county-jail, and left for Wichita.
Then your associate would ask whatever happened to 'Aunt Olivia' and you'd respond that she ran off after getting all tangled up in some love affair between the a welder-guy and a county-commissioner who had a blue Ford pick-up.
Trigger questions really didn't amount to much, at least thirty or more years ago.
Today? Triger-questions might go more intensely. You might be sitting at the porch of the neighbor and asking about his cousin Marvin....to discover that it's a forbidden topic, and triggers your neighbor to ask you to leave. Only later do you find out that Marvin stole a gas grill, or got hired-up as a circus clown.
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[I set the porch-rocker close enough to hear while we watch the antics of the dogs]
Marvin... [lights pipe]
He went to work for the county.
Dang tax-burner.
No morals whatsoever.
[puffs pipe]
Took-up with some city-gal who can't cook nor sew.
Drives some sporty foreign job.
[dramatic pause for sip]
Feral hogs ate two of her six cats.
Convinced him to quit fishing.
Neighbors saw them drinking store-bought likker.
[knowing nod, raises jug for emphasis]
They used the two-holer at the same time, the both of them, until it caved in, barely escaped with their lives.
[entire committee shakes heads]
Now, that right there is a true fact...
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