To be on the Safe Side
In a cinema during a performance one of the audience gets up, makes his way along the row of seats and goes out into the foyer.
A few minutes later he returns and asks the man sitting at the head of the row:
"Excuse me, was it your foot I stepped on when I was going out a moment ago?"
" Yes, but it doesn't really matter. It didn't hurt at all."
"Oh, no, it isn't that. I only want to make sure that this is my row."
在一家電影院里,一名觀眾在演出期間站了起來,沿著他那排位子走到休息室去了。幾分鐘后,他回到那排位子并問坐在首位的那位男士道:
“對不起,請問我剛才出去的時候是踩著你的腳嗎?”
“是的,不過沒什么關系,一點也不疼。”
“噢,不,我不是這個意思。我只是想確認一下這是不是我的那排位子。”