A shameless bribe!

It was getting late for my four-year old daughter to be up and she was starting to have a bit of a melt down, so I had her go sit on her bed until I could come up and talk to her. A few moments after I watched her go up to her room I felt a small tug on my shirt. I looked down and there was my daughter, whom I had just sent up to her room, standing with a handful of Monopoly money; mostly $500 bills.

I looked at her for a moment and then said "Yes?"

Very carefully and articulately she responded "I will give you all of this money if you let me come out of my room right now."

I looked at her in astonishment for a moment and then asked "You're gonna bribe me with Monopoly money?"

"No, this is real money." she said very carefully.

I couldn't help but think of the trunk monkey commercial that someone had shown me some time ago.