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