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TransWorld
My first experience like this was in high school in America. Had a French foreign exchange student. He learned British English.
An early exam, he leaned over to a girl next to him and asked, “Do you have a rubber I can borrow?”
She was stunned, and asked, “Right here, right now?”
“Yes, I desperately need to use a rubber, right here, right now.”
“What? As she turned beet red, he began to realize a communication problem.
“I made a mistake, I need to use a rubber to rub out my pencil writing.”
“Oh, we call them erasers. Sure, here is my eraser.”
After class they chatted and had a good laugh.
(He now lives in Switzerland and is in the export/import business. I keep in touch with him on FB.)
Guys lucky. Most guys would have been slapped or told no! But her response of right here, right now sounds like she doesn’t have a problem with the proposal, just the time and location