Mom: Come on Brady, we have to get moving or we'll be late for hockey!
Brady: I don't wanna go to hockey! I hate hockey!
Mom: You're going. We've already signed you up this year & paid a lot of money for you to play, and we don't quit things we start. It's called being committed.
Brady: Well, I wish you never paid any money for hockey & I don't want to play next year, so don't pay any more money!
Mom: Brady, you're being very rude to Mommy & very unappreciative. I really don't like this attitude at all & I don't think Santa likes it either. He's watching you all of the time you know.
* we finish getting ready & head to the arena, in the car the conversation continues *
Brady: Mom, I'm sorry I was rude to you at home.
Mom: Thank you for saying sorry Brady. That's very nice of you.
Brady: Mom, do you think when Santa was watching me be rude to you earlier, that he wrote my name on the 'Naughty List' in pencil, so now he could maybe erase it since he heard me say sorry?
Mom: Yeah, I think you're back to the 'Good List'.
Brady: Okay. Wow, that was close! Good thing he didn't write it in pen!
Mom: Yeah, good thing!
Brady: Or maybe if he writes it in pen, he could just scribble it off?
Mom: Or maybe you could just be nice all of the time, so that you won't get on the 'Naughty List' at all?
