You're in a shoe shop, second in the queue for the till. Behind the shop assistant on the till is a pair of shoes which you have seen and which you must have. The female shopper in front of you has seen them also and is eyeing them with desire. Both of you have forgotten your purses. It would be totally rude to push in front of the first woman if you had no money to pay for the shoes. The shop assistant remains at the till waiting. Your friend is trying on another pair of shoes at the back of the shop and sees your dilemma. She prepares to throw her purse to you. If she does so, you can catch the purse, then walk round the other shopper and buy the shoes. At a pinch she could throw the purse ahead of the other shopper and, *whilst it is in flight* you could nip around the other shopper, catch the purse and buy the shoes. Always remembering that until the purse had *actually been thrown* it would be plain wrong to be forward of the other shopper. Congratulations - You have just learnt the offside rule
I figured they might come in handy when the shopper in front of you needs something to gouge out whilst you two are enacting the weak sports metaphor as related by the (alto) sax machine...
Ha. Ha. Ha. Can we please lay to rest this whole "women are obsessed with shoes" thing? All I ask of a shoe is that it is comfortable. I buy them at thrift shops. I'm also not obsessed with chocolate, shopping, soap operas or guys with cute butts. Not that there's anything wrong with guys with cute butts - just not obsessed with them. We're all a bunch of hippies anyway - shouldn't we be talking about peace and stuff like that there?
There's to many Americans here for a joke like that. It'd more appreciated in the UK or Europe forum.
Apparantly they do actually have the offside rule in yankball. It's just that everyone disregards it.
