Snooze Button Dreams
Snooze Button Dreams
Snooze Button Dreams
January 27, 2004
Basic Economics
(Category: Snooze Button Dreams )

The Scene: Lovely Wife is in the supermarket with the spawn children. They spy an unnecessary but not out of bounds pricewise item that they covet.

Bear: Momma, can we get that unnecessary but not out of bounds pricewise item that I covet?

Lovely Wife: No, Bear. I don't have the money for it right now.

Bear: You can use your card!

Lovely Wife: There's not enough money on the card.

[Editor's note: We use a debit card, not a credit card. The kids don't grasp that it's a substitute for cash, they know only what they see on TV - that any ol' piece of plastic is a bountiful bottomless well of purchasing power.]

Bear: Please! I said 'please'.

Lovely Wife: No, sweetie. I just don't have the budget for it right now. Maybe when the tax return comes in.

Bear: Why don't you go to one of those places where you walk in with your W-2 and they give you a check then?

[Editor's note: How did he get that off of Nickelodeon and Toon Disney?]

Lovely Wife: We already filed our taxes and we'll get our money back in a couple of weeks. Besides, those places take some of the money and we don't want that, do we?

Bear: [sulkily] No...but I really want it!

Lovely Wife: Maybe we can get it when Daddy get's his next paycheck. That's only a week from now. Does that sound better?

Bear: [brightening] We can bring in a pay stub and get money now as an advance on the next paycheck!

[Editor's note: Okay, that's it. Replays of Nemo only from this point on.]

Lovely Wife: That sort of place takes a lot of the money from the paycheck. We'd never use something like that unless there was a big emergency.

Bear: [even more sulkily] It's not fair. I've been really good!

Lovely Wife: We just don't have the money for it right now. Do you think money grows on trees or something?

Bear: Doesn't it?

Lovely Wife: No, you have to go to a job and work for it.

Bear: You don't work, and you have money!

[Editor's note: Ouch!!]

Lovely Wife: My job is taking care of you. [sotto vocce:] And I think I'm about ready to demand a raise.

Bacon: Momma! Can I get that unnecessary but not out of bounds pricewise item that I covet?

Begin Round Two

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Comments

I didn't think you'd remember.You seemed asleep when I told you!!

Posted by: LW at January 27, 2004 10:08 AM

I remember everything! ;-)

Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2004 10:11 AM

Kind of makes you wonder what kind of commercials they are playing on Nickelodean these days...

Posted by: Susie at January 27, 2004 01:51 PM

Actually this one they probably saw on another station (those ocations mother gets to see the news for once).Nickelodeon however has alot of irritating,sugar containing commercials.LOL

Posted by: LW at January 27, 2004 02:37 PM

That's funny and slightly disturbing all at the same time.

Of course the solution is to give the kids their own credit cards. They can experience the joy of purchasing, the dread of the bill, the horror of repaying and crippling interest payments before the repo men appear. A good life lesson and better than what they'll learn from Nemo, which seems to teach that fish escaping fish tanks is a good idea.

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