Yay!! it's 3:13 p.m. Eastern Daylight and the pub's still open!! This morning, I cycled to the downtown university where I teach and was locking up my bike with the usual two locks and cable. It's around 8:00 a.m. A man walked by and said, "Hi cutie!" I looked up and saw that the man was very old and wearing dark glasses and was being guided by a younger man holding his sleeve. I thought, "Wow, he's blind." Then I thought -- "I am so cute today that even a blind man can see how cute I am. How cool is that?" So I finished locking my bike and caught up to the two men, I said, "Did you just say 'Hi Cutie'? Old man, "Yes, you are cute today." Me: Are you blind? Old man, "No, I can see you perfectly." "Oh," I said, a little disappointed. The moral of the story: Ecclesiastes 1:12:14: Vanity vanity all is vanity.
I "collect" weird catcalls. (I am NOT a fan of catcalling but I have not yet mastered the art of yelling back at the catcaller. For now I pretend they don't exist but make note of them.) Recently, I got a thumbs-up (that one was new). More recently, a man honked at me twice to get my attention, and then he gave me the OK sign. I found this particularly befuddling.
I'm using the second one. Adding a little wink in there too.