lilfluff

In other problematic news, I keep having conversations like this with my sense of entitlement.

Me: Woohoo! The store card is paid off, zero balance!

SoE: Hey, cool, you know what this means?

Me: What?

SoE: We could buy an awesome new computer!

Me: Wait, what? This one works just fine.

SoE: Did you know they sell laptops with four core processors now? That's eight simultaneous threads! Ooh! This one has seven and a quarter hours of battery life!

Me: I said, this one works just fine! How much does that cost any-- what! No, I'm not dropping 2K on a new laptop!

SoE: Seven hours of--

Me: NO! I just paid that card off. The whole point is to get to zero debt. Not get deeper in debt.

(SoE uses puppy eyes. Puppy eyes attack fails.)

Me: No. Maybe once everything is paid off. But not now.

SoE: If I wait can I have a laptop with an eight-core processor?

Me: Maybe.

SoE: Yay! (SoE does a Happy Dance!)