My only bagpipes issue is with my upstairs neighbour. All night long he’s stomping around, thumping and banging on the floor. It would really upset me if I wasn’t already up playing my bagpipes.
My interpretation is that it is Bob speaking, and rather than saying nothing, he came up with a lame “nice” thing to say just to fill the silence. Hence the “well…”
30 years ago I worked with a guy who had a glass eye. My office was next to the lunch room, and one day there was some good-natured roughhousing going on in there and I yelled out (jokingly, I wasn’t upset) “if you keep that up someone’s going to lose an eye.” It went quiet for 30 seconds or so, and then he appeared in my doorway and quickly said, “too late, catch” and threw me his eye. The delay was while he popped it out and rinsed it before throwing it.
I’ve never understood why some people call it “tuna fish”… Is that to clarify they aren’t talking about tuna birds? Or tuna legumes? Do they also say they are using “ground beef bovine” when they are BBQing hamburgers? And what’s up with the “ham” in hamburger, anyway? It’s not ground pork… Obviously I need more coffee.
My only bagpipes issue is with my upstairs neighbour. All night long he’s stomping around, thumping and banging on the floor. It would really upset me if I wasn’t already up playing my bagpipes.