escalation of needs

Elapsed time: 2 minutes, 27 seconds. I counted.

1. "Could you please bring me a banana, if you could be so kind?"

2. "I am really, really hungry."

3. "My stomach. It is rumbling. It is rumbling a lot. I have a rumble right now. Can you hear it?"

4. "I think I might be starving, Mom."

5. [lying flat across the table, groaning quietly.]