Mom, can we get cable TV or a satellite dish?
It costs money, dear. What's wrong with the regular television stations?
The shows are dull and they're too many advertisements.
Well, you already watch too much TV instead of doing your homework, anyway.
There're educational stations too. I could learn while I watched TV.
Well, that's true, but you'd probably only watch cartoons and action movies.
No I wouldn't. . . can't we get cable? Everybody has cable.
Well, if everybody jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?
Mom!!! Please. All my friends have had it for years.
Get new friends.
Why are you always so mean?
Because you'd end up spoiled rotten if I wasn't.
I could help pay for it.
Let's see how your grades are this semester, and maybe I'll talk to your father about it.