Hmmm . . .

Miss M was standing and chatting with her Daddy when a loud burp emerged from her.

Daddy: "What do you say?"

M: silence

Daddy: M, what are you supposed to say?"

M: just looks at him silently.

Daddy: "M, what do you say when you burp?"

M: "I didn't burp."

Daddy: "Yes you did, we all heard you!"

M: "No, I didn't."

Daddy: "If you can't say excuse me, then you need to go into the other room."

M: "But I didn't burp."

Daddy: (rising to escort her to the other room)

M: (very quickly) "ES'CUSE ME!"

Mommy: "That's better, that's what polite people say when they burp."

M: "But I didn't burp!"

Mommy: "Then what was that?"

M: "I yawned!"

Mommy: "You can still say excuse me."

M: "No, I can't."

Mommy: "Many polite people say excuse me after they yawn."

M: "Not this person."

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I'm both laughing at her reasoning, and bewildered about how to deal with such determined stubbornness.