Wonderful Wife: “Come help set the table.”

Little Miss Thing, age 7: “No.”

WW: “Pardon me?”

LMT: “No… thank you?”

WW: “Get to work.”

(stomp stomp stomp)

WW: “Stomping is not a valid form of protest.”

LMT: “I’m not stomping. I’m… playing Jingle Bells… with my feet.”

WW: …