On Jun 25, 3:55*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.

It's special to know that when you extend a courtesy to someone you
only extend it so far.

The world would probably have stopped revolving if you had put up the
top, life would have lost meaning, and you would have become a bitter
old man. You dodged a bullet there, Sparky.

BTW, actions like that are a reason why you're going to singles
events.

R