[nilesfunnies] Subjunctive

Child to parents: "Mummy and Daddy, I hate you and I wish I was dead"

Mummy: "Why, Harriet, after all the love and care that Daddy and I have
lavished on you, that's a horrible thing to say ...

... I wish I *were* dead; it's the bloody subjunctive, you little brat".

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