Greaaattt!!! Hahaha, love this! Speaking about differing perspectives! I had expected a serious song but this is a tale full of humour, wich could and will ofcrluse also occult in reality. Especialy these days maybe. Allthough I wonder if it was much different in previous times. Well sung. Clear. Good lyrics. Good music. Love the pauses in the rythm. And the sound of the uke’s.

Why only a chorus at the end? It is so wonderful!

Such cool sounding ukuleles! And you do a good job of showing the two interpretations each was having of the same experience.

I'm hoping that our innocent-but-threatening person might learn to consider the other perspective . . .

It’s not paranoia when every woman knows one who has been assaulted and most have personal stories of their own. If someone behind speeds up when following that’s a strong sign of coming violence. Thanks for ending with the pepper spray.

Great tune and wise cautionary tale. I remember when that Gillette commercial addressed ‘is this the best that a man can get?’ and it caused such an uproar, the beginning of a shift in how to approach random women that men (especially men in groups) have never met and the hinting of how not to. It was kinda cool to see those seeds of empathy starting to be sown, as a young woman back in the day whose automatic response was not rocking boats, laughing sexism and weird intrusive hyper masculine behaviour off along with culturally ingrained people pleasing masking actual discomfort, fear or anger… from what I remember at least, different now that I’m not a teen or remotely near my early twenties. And here you are, Berni, bringing sensitivity training awareness in song to such uncouth ill fitting old school behaviours, which I think is very cool. I did sometimes travel with bear spray in my youth! 😆

oh here’s a good quote…

“Men are afraid women will laugh at them and women are afraid men might kill them.”

-Margaret Atwood

Yup the clash of two times! Yeah whose truth eh! Really clever apt and well done.

more than simply teo differing perspectives, these people lived in different eras. the boy, from sa more romantic time when following girls was the first step toward courtship and there was no nefarious intent, and the girl, in the paranoid and violent world of today, when any attempted contact from stranger to stranger is judged pre-assault behavior with criminal intent. oh, for the days when stealing kisses was looked upon as gallantry.