How to Ask for Money from Your Parents

Brandon Stanton from Humans of New York always captures such good moments with the people he photographs:

“My sister taught me how to ask for money from my parents.”
“Oh yeah? How’s that?”
“First you give them a compliment. Then you talk about your day. Then you tell them about your grades. Then you ask for money.”

My strategy is to wait until the situation is dire dire dire and then call and be desperate and hem and haw and be really quiet on the phone until one of my parents reads my mind. Then I apologize profusely. (Her tactic is better.)

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