Had to re-check/search for the Fox and Grapes fable to reply - as the way you had used it to illustrate the point you were presenting had me totally baffled.
And I confirm that indeed you have cannibalized/bastardized the whole concept!!!!
The fable of The Fox and the Grapes is one of a number which feature only a single animal protagonist. (Another example is The Cock and the Jewel.) The Latin version of Phaedrus (IV.3) is terse and to the point.
Driven by hunger, a fox tried to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine but was unable to, although he leaped with all his strength. As he went away, the fox remarked, 'Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.' People who speak disparagingly of things that they cannot attain would do well to apply this story to themselves.[2]
In her version of Jean de La Fontaine's retelling of the fable, Marianne Moore underlines his ironical comment on the situation in a final pun, "Better, I think, than an embittered whine".[3]
Although the fable describes purely subjective behaviour, the English idiom sour grapes which develops from the story is now often used also of envious disparagement to others. Similar expressions exist in other languages; for example, the Persian expression: "The cat that cannot reach the meat says it stinks," and the Arabic expression, "those that cannot reach the grapes call them sour."[citation needed] The idiom is present in the Scandinavian countries also, where the sour grapes have been replaced with sour rowanberries since grapes are not common in northern latitudes.
source: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_GrapesBut.... I get what you mean...I think!!
Ad the reply is....don't be a glutton!
Restrain yourself and ONLY and only "do it" when the earth has really moved for you!
Don't just be picking for the sake of picking - or worry that unless you do so, you're gonna be shut out totally - a malady that befalls too many guys when scrambling at a KTV line-up/flower street/sauna line-up/BBS.
Especially the locales you've been at - CP and AC. ForCrissakes - if you miss out on 1, 2 3 or even a dozen gals at these places - you KNOW that there's at least another 10 dozen gals just waiting to be picked!
And if you DO end up blank for the night - B.F.D.!! There's always the next night!
But when THE gal does shows up and does move your earth and moon - you ARE really gonna immediately know...and right away swoop her up.
Quality ... that's what counts when punting...not just quantity!!
Quantity is only good to write about on here - but quality is what's gonna make YOU a happy li'l trooper!
Make sense?
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Hey MKK - you need any part time help during the summer?
I'll work for cheap!!
But must have first dibs on ALL good looking lassies coming in!
Am sure your SO ain't gonna mind - as it'll free you up to do other important things....like unloading boxes and mending clothes in the back - way way in the back!!
No, J/K.
But seriously?
You get to oggle all day all these Kawaii Kawaii gals looking for kawaii kawaii clothes?
Man - if it was me, I'd end up going broke - coz I'd probably end up just giving away stuff to these cuties!
Is that the reason you come to China regularly? To source out clothes etc here to stock up your store?
SEAJ
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