Re: Hail to the Handbag!
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 4:07 am
Ugh, aggressive verbal incontinents can be tricky. Here's hoping he settles down.Happy-N-Skirts wrote: I have never been bothered by anyone except to compliment it and / or ask where I bought it, until last weekend. We were at an annual weekend meeting of an explorer group we belong to, and a man made an irritating comment about my "purse", and the next day he made a comment and gesture about squeezing my behind, insinuating my shoulder bag as making me look effeminate (or he admired my butt). His first comment was not amusing so I brushed it off, but the second one the next day was insulting. He is also a member of the organization. I was ready with an answer to the first comment, which was to say I don't like having too much stuff in my pockets. My reply to the second one was that sitting on a wallet was like sitting on a potato. I should probably expect him to say something else the next time we meet, which will be at a meeting. I will think up a snappy answer to his cloddy attitude.
I bought a woven purse from a street shop last summer just because I found it pretty and was looking for something colourful and small for summer days where I don't even have to carry a just-in-case umbrella. Standing at a corner waiting for a light to change, at the top of our downtown financial district, a beautiful young woman raced against the end of a walk signal to come up and ask me where I got it. She called it a purse and remarked how pretty it was. I was too breathtaken to strike up a conversation, though I had the time and certainly would have enjoyed tarrying with her awhile.
Pleasant interactions like that can make up for a dozen crap ones, and I don't think I've had more than three really crap ones since I lost my trousers full time years ago.