Quote Originally Posted by nosytt View Post
Maybe she thinks you're retarded and needed help crossing the road and ordering until your friend (helper) came to meet you at the shop.
Without a doubt. I'll only trust a local to guide me across a street with traffic mid-block. A local understands how things work, a visitor, not so much. Besides, we drive on the correct side of the road, so I instinctively look in the wrong direction in SYD. Nothing wastes time more than a slight hesitation, and then you find yourselves on opposite banks of the flowing traffic river (1st hand experience). Or lost in the crowds out shopping for the Lunar New Year. I stick out in a crowd, they don't. Besides, she's got soft hands (again, 1st hand experience - pun intended).