On Jun 25, 2:55 am, mm wrote:
OT Your opinion?

On a 3-day weekend a while back I went to a singles event at a beach
front hotel

On Saturday a woman at least 30 y.o. had heard that I lived in the
same city she did, and asked me for a ride home on Monday. (Most of
those there came from my city or another one.)

I said, "Sure. I drive a convertible."

How should she have interpreted those words?

She didn't say anything about the car in return. Come Sunday, we left
at 3 or 4, on a beautiful summer day, and as usual for me, I had the
top down. My friend who I came with was in the passenger seat and she
and a girlfriend were in the back seat. She asks me to put the top
up. I said, "I told you I had a convertible."

I figured, Why would I mention that if I wasn't planning to put the
top down? (With the top up, it's like any other car.) She had two
days to get a ride with someone else if that was a problem. I would
have looked for a ride for her, too.

Andy comments:
If you didn't want to do it, then you could have just said " The
mechanism
is broken and it won't go up. Would you like for me to drop you off
somewhere ?"

Lying is a good way to dismiss someone's request without saying
anything overt to cause a disagreement. Politicians do it all the
time...

Andy in Eureka, Texas