"Knew you'd see it my way," Carter nodded with a quick smile at W. "Let's quit messing around and choose up," a third boy said.
One wrong move, the wrong interpretation, and "Quit messing with him, Tom," the admiral said good naturedly.
Quit messing around, and go tell those people what to do.
The other guy said flatly, "I'm not going nowhere till you quit messing with my Mac.
"I'm the guy who's gonna kick your butt if you don't quit messing with my system," the kid said angrily.
And quit messing with my sleep.
"And you will quit messing about with that crab, and eat properly."
I thought Zarinth was going to have a conniption fit if he didn't quit messing with the settings.
"I want you to quit messing around at IDCC and come over to us."