The Offside rule, explained for girls.

[emmelinemay]

You're in a shoe shop, second in the queue for the till. Behind the
shop assistant on the till is a pair of shoes which you have seen and which you must have.

The female shopper in front of you has seen them also and is eyeing them with desire.

Both of you have forgotten your purses.

It would be totally rude to push in front of the first woman if you
had no money to pay for the shoes.

The shop assistant remains at the till waiting.

Your friend is trying on another pair of shoes at the back of the shop and sees your dilemma.

She prepares to throw her purse to you.

If she does so, you can catch the purse, then walk round the other shopper and buy the shoes.

At a pinch she could throw the purse ahead of the other shopper and, *whilst it is in flight* you could nip around the other shopper, catch the purse and buy the shoes.

Always remembering that until the purse has *actually been thrown* it would be plain wrong to be forward of the other shopper.

Comments

[djsynne.livejournal.com]

Nice try:)

[hsb.livejournal.com]

third try for posting *hates LJ*

Hockey has same rule. Men stupid if they think it's hard.

H

[angel-emma.livejournal.com]

My old flatmate was a huuuuuuge Arsenal fan so she explained it to me. Nice analogy :)

[armoury-kim.livejournal.com]

I read your analogy over the phone to Ben and the director who I sit in the office with (and is a very big football fan as well as playing football most evenings and every Sunday), said it was a very good one.

Anyway, yes it is definitely clearer than mud to me now. :)

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

it's not mine, it's one of those e-mail forward thingamajigs. It is good though, isn't it!!

[wormburger.livejournal.com]

I feel most enlightened. thanks