Gal Smiley is trying to zip up her coat by herself.

Gal: I can’t do it.

Sirmonkeypants: You can do it if you try! The world is your oyster!

Captain Jelly Belly: What does “world is your oyster” mean?

Sirmonkeypants: It means you can have anything you want and do anything you want.

CJB [excitedly]: When can the world be my oyster?? Soon? When I’m six??

Sirmonkeypants: Um, maybe when you’re 18.

CJB: How about when I’m seven?

Sirmonkeypants: Maybe.

CJB: Or eleven?

Sirmonkeypants: Sure. The world will be your oyster when you’re eleven.*

Due to similar conversations in which forbidden things are negotiated for, the Captain expects to have a Coke on his twelfth birthday, to ride in the front seat of the car on his thirteenth birthday, and now, to have everything he wants on his eleventh birthday. And trust me, he’s keeping track.