embarrassing epitome of incomprehensibility Yesterday at work: reading off a list of a potential tutor's qualifications to someone who's doing a PhD in biology, I went and said, "Botany - which means plant biology." She started laughing. I said, "Oh. You're the wrong person to have to explain THAT to," which made her laugh more. All well and good. Shared laughter strengthens bonds, even if I felt pretty stupid. But then today, at a joint choir practice, I was asking for change from two sopranos from the other choir, and I said to one, "Oh, I already gave the balance [of money] to your mother." And she was NOT the mother of the other, but a friend of around the same age! And I felt bad because people generally don't like to look older than they are (in this social atmosphere women seem to mind more than men, but I'm not a man and I haven't talked to any guys about this in depth.) 151121 what's it to you? who go blather from