Title: British parental-teenager conversation
by Robyn from Hertfordshire | in writing, fiction
(A woman sitting in the kitchen drinking some tea and reading a magazine. Her daughter walks in and stands before her)
Daughter: Mum, I want.
Mother: What?
D: I want.
M: Well, you can't have.
D: Why not?!
M: Because you haven't done this or shown me that.
D: But all my friends wanted and got!
M: I don't care what happened to your friends, you're not getting!
D: But I'll try to do that and I'll try to show you this, I promise.
M: I know you. You'll promise anything to get what you want.
D: But I'm being honest, I swear I'll do it.
M: You'll never persevere; you'll stop after a couple of weeks, once you've gotten what you want.
D: But Mum!
M: That's the end of it!
D: Oh my God!
(Daughter groans and storms out. Mother returns to her magazine.)
It's just a conversation between a mum and child but it¿s like a formula for all conversations between British children and their parents. I wrote it after I'd watched the first episode of Skins.
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