Cold Logic

Setting: Mom's folding laundry on the kitchen table while a perfectly healthy Emma is eating her English Muffin (with butter and peanut butter) breakfast.
Emma: "I want some milk."
Mom (continues folding): <silence>

Five minutes later...
Emma: "I want some milk."
Mom (stops folding): (gives surreptitious glance)
Emma: "May I have some milk, please?"
Mom: "Ah, thanks Missy...Yes you may...."
Emma (pointing to her throat): "Mom, I was going to say please the first time, but I had a cold."