GoSeigen wrote:Good analogy but understates the cringe level of my worst hole-digging effort: local tennis club... my young kids' friends habitually attend with their mother and pet dog. One week they arrive with an older-looking gentleman: "Hello, you must be the grandfather!" say I jocularly. "Umm, I'm Harry's father" says he; whereupon instead of shrinking under the armchairs I address the dog -- yes the dog! -- with "Oh you've brought your granddad today!" which achieved precisely the opposite of the intended effect of not looking like a complete tit...
Is it worse to assume that a youngish person is the mother, when it turns out to be the grandmother?
TJH