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Originally Posted by VenusHalley
but after I went to look for shoes in one of the monstrous shopping malls in Prague. (1) Once there some older guy asked me if I know where XY shop is at. I said I don't know, that I don't come here often. To which (2) he said I look like I spend lot of time in this shopping center!!! To which I started to explain that no, that I don't even usually dress in this way and that I am all about sustainable development, fairtrade and supporting local producers and that I just need shoes. He was all O.o
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Venus,
While I definitely see your point in all the other examples,
in this particular example, may I offer an alternative viewpoint?
Maybe the older guy was misguided in his attempt at hitting on a pretty young woman. Maybe he thought that asking you about the location of XY would get him somewhere (bold part 1 above), and when it did not get him anywhere with you, he quickly came up with an explanation (bold part 2 above) behind his inquiry (bold part 1 above, again).
If that was the case, you expended too much energy telling him about sustainable development - you could have simply smiled and batted your eyelashes.
Granted, I have never, unfortunately, been to Prague, so this is just a pure conjecture based on observing older guys and young women in US, Canada, Germany, and Russia.