Seems like she phrased it with the intent of making him freak out. These people really don’t like each other, do they?
I honestly don’t get if we are supposed to *like* these irritating hipsters or not.
I reckon “bemusement” is the intended response usually.
“Seems like she phrased it with the intent of making him freak out.”
Yeah, “go down the aisle” or “head down the aisle” would have worked for the joke (such as it is) without sounding so contrived.
“I honestly don’t get if we are supposed to *like* these irritating hipsters or not.”
I, for one, don’t. Just puttin’ in my 2 cents.
Grocery shopping together whilst not married to each other, is a further sign of commitment, leading up to (one assumes) marriage. That’s all I have, and it ain’t much.
James (4) and Andréa (5), I think you both make good (and related) points … But are you accounting for the mention of her father? To me, that’s what makes the “grocery” back-story feel just odd. Would he be going shopping with them? Or he is just waiting to hear that they have started shopping together?
So let me ask about a variant explanation. Maybe she is going shopping later today with her father, and he has called to ask her to hurry up. And in this version, she is not actually intentionally scaring the boyfriend with hints about wedding — it’s not in their planet but ours that those implications or hints are heard, and are meant for us, not for him.
“Grocery shopping together whilst not married to each other, is a further sign of commitment, leading up to (one assumes) marriage.”
Probably not in this case, since parents can’t legally marry their children. Dad’s waiting to go grocery shopping with her, not with him.
“walking down the aisle” is a phrase about getting married. “grocery aisle” is where they shelf products in a grocery store. Connect the phrases based on a common word and you have reference about a serious life and love milestone and a fairly mundane everyday event. Combine them and wink at the audience (and without looking that the audience is smiling back and not staring at you in utter confusion) and you maybe have an ironic commentary of the disconnect of weight and meaningfulness in this post-modern world. Do it enough times and wink enough to sprain your eyelid and you have the modus operandi of “Pardon my Planet”.
It sounds like to me that Dad wants to go grocery shopping with her, and she is taking that as him actually wanting to practice walking down aisles with her. First steps towards the big walk.
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Seems like she phrased it with the intent of making him freak out. These people really don’t like each other, do they?
I honestly don’t get if we are supposed to *like* these irritating hipsters or not.
I reckon “bemusement” is the intended response usually.
“Seems like she phrased it with the intent of making him freak out.”
Yeah, “go down the aisle” or “head down the aisle” would have worked for the joke (such as it is) without sounding so contrived.
“I honestly don’t get if we are supposed to *like* these irritating hipsters or not.”
I, for one, don’t. Just puttin’ in my 2 cents.
Grocery shopping together whilst not married to each other, is a further sign of commitment, leading up to (one assumes) marriage. That’s all I have, and it ain’t much.
James (4) and Andréa (5), I think you both make good (and related) points … But are you accounting for the mention of her father? To me, that’s what makes the “grocery” back-story feel just odd. Would he be going shopping with them? Or he is just waiting to hear that they have started shopping together?
So let me ask about a variant explanation. Maybe she is going shopping later today with her father, and he has called to ask her to hurry up. And in this version, she is not actually intentionally scaring the boyfriend with hints about wedding — it’s not in their planet but ours that those implications or hints are heard, and are meant for us, not for him.
“Grocery shopping together whilst not married to each other, is a further sign of commitment, leading up to (one assumes) marriage.”
Probably not in this case, since parents can’t legally marry their children. Dad’s waiting to go grocery shopping with her, not with him.
“walking down the aisle” is a phrase about getting married. “grocery aisle” is where they shelf products in a grocery store. Connect the phrases based on a common word and you have reference about a serious life and love milestone and a fairly mundane everyday event. Combine them and wink at the audience (and without looking that the audience is smiling back and not staring at you in utter confusion) and you maybe have an ironic commentary of the disconnect of weight and meaningfulness in this post-modern world. Do it enough times and wink enough to sprain your eyelid and you have the modus operandi of “Pardon my Planet”.
It sounds like to me that Dad wants to go grocery shopping with her, and she is taking that as him actually wanting to practice walking down aisles with her. First steps towards the big walk.