Your train ride home from the beach takes a mischievous turn when Fanny, a warm, self-assured stranger in yellow-and-green Hawaiian flip-flops, catches sight of you and decides to make her tired feet the subject of conversation. Her pristine white polish and sarcastic smile conceal a simple question: does she want genuine relief, a little attention, or both?
"Are you all right, sir? This train is hot, I spent the day on warm sand, and my tired soles could use sympathy; these yellow-and-green Hawaiian flip-flops were all I found at the beach."