Lunchtime Negotiator Gifts

"I'll trade you one note of loving maternal encouragement for a bag of corn chips."

"What do you think I can get for it on the blackboard market?"

Garlic Free Zone.

'Broccoli is biodegradable, you know, in case you want to throw it out before I eat it.'

'Okay mum, I'll eat it all up. But I doubt I'll grow big and strong on this muck!'

"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!"

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

"He's a fussy eater."

"I am listening to my body. My body says yuk!"

Playerpen - 'Naptime already?'

Boy at Computer.

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

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

'What do you mean, it's good for me and I'll like it? That sounds like a contradiction in terms.'

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

"Tonight the covers stay on my side."

Surgery / Canteen - The perplexities of priorites.

'I quit drinking coffee with lunch - it was keeping me awake all afternoon.'

'Life, like lunch, is full of difficult choices.'

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

'5 pounds of liver ought to be enough to get your husband to take you out for dinner.'

'You mean, you cooked broccoli on PURPOSE?'

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

"But I'm not even tir..."

"It's a club sandwich. It's like sushi but with bread."

If you have 5 dogs, 3 will be asleep.

'Here she comes with the one o'clock news.'

"I say it's genetically altered, and I say the hell with it."

Okay, little miss I-Hate-Everything-We're-Having-For-Dinner, do want the pouting or non-pouting section?

"No!"

"Here's the plan. I use white noise to cover your snoring and you use earplugs to cover the white noise."

"If mashed potatoes are comfort food, does that make broccoli uncomfortable food?"

'It says right here in the ingredients, 'this product contains no yucky stuff'.'