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...you get up and walk into the kitchen to get some ice cream which you've been thinking about in the back of your mind ever since looking up about the new ice cream shop which serves vegan soft-serve ice cream, and you see the bowl of cucumber salad you had left out, intending to eat after finishing dinner.
:: ok, I'll eat some cucumber salad, and *then* I'll have ice cream ::
... and then you walk into the kitchen again after eating salad, ready to get ice cream, and you see on the counter the 8 figs you had picked from the tree. You know if you don't eat them now while they are still fresh, they won't taste as good tomorrow...
:: ok, I'll eat the figs, and maybe then a little bit of ice cream. ::
:: ok, I'll eat some cucumber salad, and *then* I'll have ice cream ::
... and then you walk into the kitchen again after eating salad, ready to get ice cream, and you see on the counter the 8 figs you had picked from the tree. You know if you don't eat them now while they are still fresh, they won't taste as good tomorrow...
:: ok, I'll eat the figs, and maybe then a little bit of ice cream. ::