Quote Originally Posted by Freelander
Seriously The jogger was just being well-meaning. She no doubt thought it a little stupid when she had time to think about what she had, in fact said

The more that I think about it, the less I believe that she was well intentioned.

It wasn't a spontaneous utterance- the caveat she issued was premeditated. In other words, she had a chance to think about things from the point where she first passed Graham until she met up with him again on the flip side.

To me it comes off as an oddball comment to make to someone whom you do not know. Too vague to be of any real use, and beyond her simple acknowledgement of what Graham was wearing I cannot find a compliment in it- if that was even meant as a compliment, which I do not think it was. It would have been better to have said something along the lines of, " Nice kilt! Wow, it takes someone with courage to dress that differently around here." Instead, what I take away from the encounter is that she considered anyone who would dress like that in her and Graham's town as some sort of fool who needed to be warned for his own good.

Am I being overly cynical here?



Mychael