Talking to someone who'd just gotten off a bus in a more suburban/rural area, whereupon it was discovered she'd accidentally headed in the wrong direction and would now have to re-board the bus to head back in the correct direction. I was willing to help her find her way (ie, giving advice about getting the bus back), but in retrospect, feel there was a quality of dissembling or a sardonic nature behind her 'dismay'.
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