September 18, 2008
How 19th-century of me!
Yesterday afternoon, as I neared the end of my walk, I was for the moment in the street, but near the curb. A woman pulled recklessly out from the side street, almost directly in front of the car coming along the way toward me. I sucked in my breath, jumped up onto the parkway, and said, “Good grief! What a loon!”
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Did your monocle fall? Did you pull your handkerchief/pocket square from your waistcoat and audibly shudder–like trilling from a high to low note?
Frightfully good show old boy. One feels you could have waved your umbrella at the woman to really drive the point home. Women should know their limits, along with those of their new-fangled motorised carriages!
Not to put too fine a point on it.
In Scots Doric, loon is a young man or boy while quinie (as in Queen) is a young woman or girl.
I should have said quinie then. This was definitely a woman, and young in comparison to me. I’m guessing 30-something. I didn’t catch much of a glimpse of the driver of the other car–the one with the right of way. I think it was a loon.