[00:00.00]Buy why not?I'm sixteen.
[00:14.60]That's right.You just turned sixteen.
[00:18.65]YOu just got your driver's licence.
[00:21.60]And you are certainly not driving cross-country with a couple of friends for a winter vaatio,
[00:26.64]because you don't have enough experience.
[00:30.09]How will I ever get the experience if you never let me do anything?
[00:34.25]I hardly think we are that strict.
[00:36.88]But,as you say.you never get to do anything you want.It's not fair.
[00:41.56]I'm sorry you feel that way.
[00:45.04]OK,I won't drive.
[00:48.56]Just justine and Sarah will.And they have been driving for months and months.We would be totally careful.
[00:54.80]There's nothing to worry about.
[00:57.36]Why don't you belive me?
[01:00.60]It's not that I don't believe you,Beth.
[01:03.24]But the answer is still no.But why?
[01:02.24]You may not take this trip because you are all young,
[01:05.40]relatively inexperienced driers.
[01:08.33]Since you're proposing a winter trip,that is an even more serious consideration.
[01:13.76]We'd be sick with worry.no matter what you tell us.
[01:18.80]You're just too wonderful to have around the house.
[01:21.86]You're running for your stupid office.You're doing what you want and we have to accommodate you.
[01:27.92]But I can't  do what I want.
[01:40.38]Hi! I dropped by the library.
[02:11.34]They have a bunch of new CDs
[02:16.51]Are you OK?Your daughter has it in for me.Oh,
[02:23.56]now she's my daugher.That's not a good sign.Did you have a fight?
[02:29.15]Oh yes.What about?
[02:32.08]The cross-country trip.
[02:34.22]Is she still going on about that?
[02:38.66]I thought she would have given up on it by now.
[02:41.53]Her tactic is to keep asking why.
[02:44.59]I tell her all the reasons and I cannot talk her out of it.
[02:49.63]When she asks why,you should say what I say.
[02:52.90]Which is?"Because I said  so."
[02:57.55]That mingt have worked a few years ago.It won't work now.
[03:02.01]Maybe.Do you want me to talk to her?
[03:06.06]No.I need to face up to this one myself.
[03:09.82]Don't worry  honey.
[03:13.48]She doesn't know it sometimes,but she does love you and look up to you.
[03:19.12]I thought adolescent girls were supposed to act up with their mothers.
[03:23.56]Excuse me?Have we forgotten ages 12 and 13:
[03:28.01]two solid years of tears and door-slamming?And,as I recall,you could do no wrong.
[03:34.17]No,no,I have paid my dues,Good luck.Salsa!
[04:00.53]Is it OK if I come in?Yes.
[04:07.19]Hi.The indisputable fact is that you are sixteen.
[04:21.84]We're going to have to work out when you're already sixteen.
[04:26.42]And you're already sixteen.
[04:28.98]According to you I'm going to be "only" sixteen nutil I'm ninety.
[04:34.02]You're right,I will be worrying about you longer than you want to know.
[04:39.27]But I don't want you to worry.It's not my fault if you do.
[04:44.13]Well,some situations worry us more than others,Beth.This trip is one.
[04:49.27]I'm sorry it's such a disappointment to you.I really am.
[04:56.04]You're just saying that to be nice,Daddy.
[04:59.09]When are you going to let me grow up?
[05:01.34]Believe me,honey,
[05:03.51]soon you'll be doing things you never thought possible.
[05:08.16]Say the trip were in two years...Two years!
[05:11.69]I can't do anything for two  years...Listen,listen.You'd be eighteen.
[05:18.66]You'd be better prepared.There'd be no question about the trip.
[05:23.02]So I can do it in two years?Do you promise?
[05:29.27]Oh boy.You've been doing this since you were a minute old.
[05:36.53]What?Wrapping me around your little finger.
[05:41.07]Do you promise?