Gymnopédies
5th November 2007, 22:26
You go with a friend to attend an evening party made up almost entirely of opera singers – but you don’t know this until too late. Opera is an art-form that affords you no pleasure and you say this rather loudly at some point during the evening. It’s clear that you’ve made a blunder! Later, you reproach your friend for not having warned you; you say:
A) I’ve never met anyone connected with the opera before, but I really enjoyed being with this group.
B) I didn’t realize you had so many friends with a connection with the opera.
C) I’m going to go to an opera when next I get a chance.
D) You might have told me who they were! It would have saved me no end of embarrassment.
E) I’m sorry I offended your friends; but I must say I didn’t really like them.
ÖSYM
A) I’ve never met anyone connected with the opera before, but I really enjoyed being with this group.
B) I didn’t realize you had so many friends with a connection with the opera.
C) I’m going to go to an opera when next I get a chance.
D) You might have told me who they were! It would have saved me no end of embarrassment.
E) I’m sorry I offended your friends; but I must say I didn’t really like them.
ÖSYM
