Holly’s not stupid — she knows it takes 8 weeks of $5 allowance to buy $40 jeans. She knows it takes ten nights of babysitting to pay for that cool jean jacket she wants. She knows that 5 days of 60 minute detention is 300 minutes of her life she will never get back. Holly’s no dummy.
Evie, you would get better results if you said “9 trips to the lake times meeting 7 new boys each time equals how many new friends on Facebook?”