I Do Not Like Green Eggs And Ham

Why is it that even after you tell someone that you don’t want (because you just don’t), don’t like (maybe because you’ve tried it before and you just don’t like it), can’t eat (maybe because you’re on a diet, allergic, etc.) or have no interest in (because you just don’t) something, they STILL ask you if you’d want to/like to/be interested in “it.”

What part of “No way! Thanks anyway though, I appreciate it”- is foggy or questionable?

I read something a long time ago that talked about the word; but. I can’t remember exactly what the article said, but it essentially stated that if/when you see/read/hear the word “but”, everything written or heard ahead of it gets erased/is basically pointless. 

Example:

“I know you loathe carrots and cold weather, but…”

But what? Suddenly I am going to become Peter Cottontail and hop through gardens eating the orange stuff or want to buy a ski chalet in Aspen and hit the slopes?

Sigh.

No.

No.

No!

This reminds me of a portion of this classic. 

I could not, would not on a boat.

I will not, will not, with a goat.

I will not eat them in the rain.

I will not eat them on a train.

Not in the dark! Not in a tree!

Not in a car! You let me be!

I do not like them in a box.

I do not like them with a fox.

I will not eat them in a house.

I do not like them with a mouse.

I do not like them here or there.

I do not like them ANYWHERE!

No means no today and it will mean no tomorrow. “But” good try. Thanks for asking yet again.