36-52: Negotiations

Agnes: Um, Dave, can I go outside?

Dave: I though you were just outside.

Agnes: I was.

Dave: See, no reason to go out again.

Agnes: I disagree. I want to go out now.

Dave: Does this have anything to do with the squirrel?

Agnes: Nope.

Dave: Good to know. Then what does it have to do with?

Agnes: The squirrel.

Dave: Pardon me?

Agnes: You asked if it had 'anything' to do with the squirrel. That was wrong because it has 'everything' to do with the squirrel!

Dave: You don't need to run outside to yell chase him down whenever you hear him chirping.

Agnes: That's where you're wrong. He needs me to chase him.

Dave: Really? Why can't he live his life peacefully?

Agnes: Because he's a jerk. Total jerk.

Dave: You don't need to go outside and chase him just because you think he's a jerk.

Agnes: Okay.... Can I go outside now?

Dave: Really? I though we settled this.

Agnes: You might think so, but we didn't. You said I couldn't go outside and chase him 'just because' I think he's a jerk. And I don't just think he's a jerk. I think he's both a jerk and annoying.

Dave: Really? This is how you're playing this?

Agnes: I have a long list of other things I think he is too. If I tell you all of them will you let me go outside again?

 

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Agnes pleading to go outside at the cabin. The squirrel was being particularly annoying on Saturday morning.

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