"Look, I asked them to come"
“So, how many people can you bring?”
“I don’t know. Maybe ten.”
“That’s not enough; you need to bring twenty people. I have bills to pay. I have narcotics to buy.”
“Hey, does anyone ask Bruce Springsteen how many people he can bring?”
“No, because Bruce brings twenty thousand.”
“Oh, right—I forgot. I’ll call a few more friends.”
“You do that.”