....if you're walking with a friend and you both turn to follow with your eyes an all-carbon Bianchi roadie, he says "What a beauty" and you answer "you sure don't see many like that around", and it's only after you wonder aloud whether the handlebar is carbon, too, that you realise you were talking about the bike and your friend about the lady riding it.
Yes, I was suitably embarrassed
-- Q: How many supply-siders does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. The darkness will cause the light bulb to change by itself.
...if you're walking with a friend and you both turn to follow with your eyes an all-carbon Bianchi roadie, he says "What a beauty" and you answer "you sure don't see many like that around", and it's only after you wonder aloud whether the handlebar is carbon, too, that you realise you were talking about the bike and your friend about the lady riding it.
Nah. That just means you've been brought up to be too shy^H^H polite^H^H politically correct to comment on the girlie.
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Yes, I was suitably embarrassed
You've picked up traditional english middle-class manners^H^H inhibitions. Not bad^H^H bloody daft for a forriner:-)
...if you're walking with a friend and you both turn to follow with your eyes an all-carbon Bianchi roadie, he says "What a beauty" and you answer "you sure don't see many like that around", and it's only after you wonder aloud whether the handlebar is carbon, too, that you realise you were talking about the bike and your friend about the lady riding it.
Yes, I was suitably embarrassed
Never mind the lady - what did the bike look like????