Me: Mom, I dropped this can of soda.
Mom: okay, put it on the table
Later
Mom: This soda was dropped, right?
Me: yeah.
Mom: Okay.
Me: It was dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot
Mom: please don't
Me: in the Caribbean by providence
Mom: no
Me: impoverished in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
Mom: help