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--- John Cowan skrzypszy: > Oddly enough, 25 years ago it was I who kept missing the last bus, > and it took a long time for my future wife to believe that I wasn't > doing this as a ploy, but simply out of sheer geekiness: Well, in my case it was both ways. The biggest portion of my student years I lived in a neighbourhood of Amsterdam that most people considered "far away" (= more than half an hour on foot to the centre). Mostly at my place, because I never liked spending the night elsewhere. I should confess one little sin though: I knew perfectly when the last bus/tram left, but I rarely made a particular effort to remind the lady in question. > > Of course, if somewhere during the process the lady speaks: > > "Please Mr. Thalmann, I am an innocent young thing, and I am > > definitely not waiting to be abused by a male chauvinist pig like > > yourself! Behave, you naughty boy!", you might as well offer her > > your bed right away and take the couch for yourself. > > Umm, I realize you're handicapped by doing this in an L2 (which is > pretty amazing to begin with, IMHO), Thank you. > but *that* wording could only be a come-on, not a rejection, in > this our English tongue. Really? Why? Jan