Making Friends

A couple of years ago a single, middle-aged female friend in a nearby village asked a married neighbor to hang some plant baskets outside her bedroom window.

The guy duly carried out the task, but not without some apprehension – somehow misreading the lovely lady’s request as a come-on, and, while drilling the screws for the basket fittings, commented that ‘people’ might start gossiping about why he was leaning out of her bedroom window that day. “As if!’ the female friend said to me at the time, “I don’t even fancy him”.

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