Me: That's not happening. (I believe in letting them down easily.) When you are old enough to own your own place, then you can get one. Not before.
Mim: No. I want one now, not when I'm grown.
Me: (raised eyebrow) Oh really.
Mim: Yes, because when I'm older I won't want to do this. I want to get a pony and spray paint it to look like Twilight Sparkle. (pictured above)
I argued that the fact that she won't want to do it when she's older and wiser should give her pause, but her only response was
"Do you want to paint a pony?"
"No"
"There. That's why I should do it now."
I don't think she gets it....or maybe I don't.
3 comments:
There are plenty of adults who would paint a pony. Maybe you haven't crushed her dreams yet.
Yeah, but if she still wants to do that as an adult, then it will crush my dreams.
She's hilarious and has a certain, self-serving kind of logic that doesn't usually strike until the teen-aged years...
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