Cant promise that

Last night at dinner Chloe asked if she could save three of her six carrot sticks and eat them for her lunch the next day. I told her okay... She put them on top of her lunch box. Then I said she could do that under one condition. If she promised she would absolutely eat the carrots at her lunchtime. She immediately scooped up the carrots, put them back on her plate, and said "Well, I can't promise that, so I'll just eat them now". I can't say whether she was admitting to trying to get out of eating them, or if it was her tendency toward taking absolutes very seriously. Either way I'm smiling.