Some folks get humiliated awfully easily, fancying offense where none is given. Cf Caring What Others Think thread. I submit that the lady has more important things to worry about.

As to moving into a hut, Peter...I dunno, sounds like a pretty extreme solution to me. Maybe a little lightening up would serve you better. There are too many variables and too many arbitraries and opinions in any social interchange to try and pin all of them down neatly.

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