Hitch - The Date Doctor (II)

A note for those who think that the tips given in the movie Hitch could be immediately applied in Uganda: It is not possible!

Take for example the fumbling of the keys which is supposed to be a sign that rather than wanting to step into her house/apartment immediately the woman wants to start necking[1] instead with her date. In Uganda there are gates and guards at the houses and you have no keys[2]… alternatively, the woman of your heart lives in an apartment. Then she has keys but it is the same as with a house: first you have to pass the guards at the gates and there she needs no keys, so there is no fumbling with them…

Some might be interested in knowing how I came up with this. Well, I used one word in an apparently inappropriate context, when I told my new British colleague to treat his laptop nicely by “fondling its keyboard”. Then my synapsis started to connect randomly and I ended up asking my colleague for synonyms for “herumfummeln” in English; “to fumble” was among them; that was used in Hitch; we are in Uganda; that is how the story goes...

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[1] In the Queen’s great country “to neck” has a different meaning which caused some laughter, when I used that word at a party recently. I used in the sense of “to down”.

[2] You may have a walkie-talkie into which you secretly mumble a codeword/-phrase which a) wakes up the guard and b) safely clears your way to your premises. Since those are usually used by Amercians, the codewords/-phrases are like “Peachtree State”, “Redsox sucks”, “Whitesox rocks”…