Television

Bedtimes. Who needs them? Fall asleep when you're tired, not when you're told to go to sleep. Well, as a child, like many children, had a bed time. I would always be watching TV and my mom would come in and say, "Okay Shaun, five more minutes then you have to go to sleep."

I would always beg, "Mom, ten, please, pleeeeeaaaaassssee."
Usually she would say, "Okay, ten minutes."

I would get another solid ten minutes of TV watching time. However, after the ten minutes I would probably still be in the middle of a tv show, so I wouldn't want to go to sleep. My mom would come in and say, "Okay, it's been ten minutes."

I would always lie, every single time, and say, "Mom it was all commercials, I didn't even get to watch TV. Can I get another ten mintues, pleeeeeaaaassseeeee?"

She would usually believe me and I would get another ten minutes, thus making fifteen minutes more than I was supposed to stay up. I guess I was pretty good at setting up schemes to benefit myself.