2004-01-28

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2004-01-28 11:53 pm

Heart-Stopping Moment Of The Evening

...was nothing to do with the weather.

Having made it from deepest Hampshire to the BSFA meeting (and been rewarded with an excellent evening listening to Geoff Ryman's reading and interview) I was standing in the upstairs bar in the Rising Sun. [livejournal.com profile] tamaranth was sitting facing me, which given our relative sizes put her eye-level on a par with my belt.

"You're flashing!" she announced.

Following my panic-stricken look and not-very-furtive check that I wasn't unzipped, she conceded that
(a) she was referring to my mobile phone, and
(b), yes, that was a remark that a man might misinterpret if a woman made it whilst looking vaguely in the direction of his fly...

MC