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Negotiating with a toddler.
Trying to get him to deat dinner.
T: All done!
Dad: No, you're not all done, you've only had one bite.
T: All done!
Dad: You need to eat what's on your plate.
T: No eat, all done!
Dad: Look, there are five bites on your plate, you need to eat those before you go anywhere.
T: No five bites!
Dad: Let's count them, one...two...three...four....five
T: No onetwothreefour five! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten!
Dad: Oh, so you want 10 bites?
T: Yeah!
Dad: Okay, here we go, bite number one
T: [om nom nom nom]
What an amateur!
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