Valentine's Gift

Son: “I want to buy a $60 bracelet for my girlfriend on Valentine’s Day.”
Mother: “do you earn any money?”
Son: “No”
Mother: “you can buy her something simple and nice from $20-30 and it'll be fine. That’s all I’m giving you.”
Son: “no I want it to be nice and perfect. My friends are going to laugh at me.”
Mother:” well it’s your father who works hard there is no point in competing, your girlfriend should be happy with whatever you give her”
Son:”Okay fine, I’ll go tomorrow”

This conversation went on between a son and his mother as you can see. The son is asking for money to go get his girlfriend a gift because he doesn’t have any. It’s funny because he’s mother asked him if he earned money and he said no. He doesn’t earn any money and he’s asking for a big amount for a gift for his girlfriend, he’s not getting the money to buy himself something but a gift for his girlfriend. He’s getting it for that amount of money so that his friends don’t laugh at him. It’s as if he’s buying the gift for his friends and not his girlfriend. The mother did have a point when she said your girlfriend should like whatever you get her, well if she didn’t then I think she’s not the right one for him.