Responses to common Austin complaints.
Why won't you let me use/eat (something)? Â You're just greedy!
Mostly, dude, it's because you can act like a jerk if you can't have it all. Â If I won't let you have some of the lemonade I bought because I'm trying to make sure we don't go through it all in 3 days, and you flip out about how greedy I'm being... why would I then want to give you some of my lemonade? Â If you could just be patient and Find Something Else to entertain yourself with or eat, eventually lemonade would become obtainable again. Â But if you just whine every time it's brought up, why would that put me in a sharing mood?
Why won't you let me watch 6 episodes of (something) in a row?
It's rude, dude, to whine about getting something because you don't get as much as you want. Â Look, I know you sped through the entire first two seasons of Family Guy in a weekend, and that is why I'm a bit more controlling now. Â You have no willpower, so I'll be that sometimes. Â I like to share what I have with you, but not drown you in it and leave you a lump for a weekend. Â Have some variety!
You NEVER want to watch a movie/play a game!
That complaint really means "You won't always play a game or watch a movie when I want to." Â The times when we desire to watch a movie or play a game don't always match up. Â That doesn't mean we haven't played dozens of hours of my games, or watched dozens of my movies.