MotherFatherSon (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.2 (2019)

Pippa Bennett-Warner: Lauren Elgood

Quotes 

• Lauren Elgood : [Talking to Nick]  My mum brought me up alone. She was a cleaner. When I was a teenager, I asked if I could help out, because I needed some money. She told the people she worked for that I baked the best cakes. I don't know if they were the best, but they were pretty good. Soon, I was selling cakes to a bunch of different families. I must have become big-headed, going on about how great I was, because one day my mum explained that, if she ever stopped cleaning their houses, they'd stop buying my cakes. She explained that I wasn't actually selling cakes, I was selling charity for the cleaner's daughter. My cakes made my mum's customers feel like they were better people, generous and warm-hearted. But if she'd asked for even the smallest raise, they would've refused. Do you know what I learnt from that experience?

  [Nick shakes the head] 

  Lauren Elgood : How to get what you want from people. Sometimes, you ask directly, they say no... You bake them a cake.