Late-night Negotiators Gifts

"The next time he suddenly decides to send a peace missive to thirty-seven nations, I hope he gets started before six o'clock."

'You think I'm crazy; I think you're crazy...finally some common ground!'

'Try and be negative in a positive way.'

Changing Minds

'I'm not playing 'Bride and Groom' unless you sign this pre-nuptial aggreement!'

"No, four glasses of water was enough. . . now I have to go to the bathroom!"

'But I'm not tired yet!!!'

"Houston, we have a problem!"

We pay the maximum minimum wage.

'I'm pretty sleepy tonight, Dad - could we just skip ahead to the chase scene?'

A successful meeting! Only one member left in a rage shouting obcenities.

"No screen time means more scream time."

"Oh, yeah? Well, we just put out a contract on you too!!!"

"If it gets tense in here I might need you to step up and BS-calate things."

Playerpen - 'Naptime already?'

"But it will never get better if you picket"

'Early to bed and early to rise? It's a deal.'

"I realize you want to enjoy every last minute of summer, but it's not possible to stay awake until school starts."

'Sometimes it's good to get a different perspective.'

'What split would you settle for, fifty fifty?' - 'As long as I get the hyphen as well.'

'You've become unbearable since you started working in that betting shop!'

'All right. I'll get forty winks, but not one wink more.'

"Tonight the covers stay on my side."

"Mother, you were right."

"All night I dreamed I was at work. Do I get overtime for that?"

'You're not calling the Help Desk again, are you?'

Unison plans strikes

'I promised my Dad I'd be home by ten but I didn't say if that was P.M. or A.M..'

"You tell me where you hid the remote and I'll tell you where I hid your phone."

London underground talks continued

'Early to bed and early to rise. I like a saying with an escape clause.'

"Be right in, I just brought my lucky chair."

"Here comes the ambassador now!"

"No, no, boy. It's Tuesday. Wednesdays are your nights to sleep on the big bed."

"Our guest for the ceasefire meeting has arrived!"