Red faces for big mouths
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I live in a country in Asia, and one night I was out with a few guys with whom I spent time in a UK uni the year before. We were reminiscing about our past and all the good Uni times, and somehow I came up with the topic about a hot girl (who was of similar nationality to us) who was a friend of our friend back during Uni days, who used to come over to our city (back when we were in the UK) a couple of times for gatherings and stuff.
We guys were pondering and admiring about, let's just say, 'the physical perfection' of this particular girl and we were conversing quite out loud if I may recall, perhaps adding in some inappropriate comments at times...just us guys being guys. It was perhaps past 2 a.m. in a small cafe located in a slightly remote rural village which only had maybe three tables filled up with customers. Whilst we were still on the subject of this, erm...hot girl....a group of customers suddenly left their table which was barely a few metres behind ours approaching the only exit which was near to us, and who did I see? It was the hot girl we were busy talking about - she was at the same cafe the whole time - and none of us were aware of that fact at all beforehand! Well that shut us up! :O
Date submitted:Tue, 22 May 2012 19:17:26 +0000Coincidence ID:6392
