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For a situation like you told us about, I'd 'lie' a little to make it seem less like I'm being a busybody. Mention that your mother/wife/sister had their purse lifted in similar circumstances and it's taken weeks to cancel and renew all the cards and ID.
Sometimes people need reminding.
Then again, a funny one happened to me on the tube last week.
As all long time Londoners know, there is no chivalry on the tube. If your arse is near an open seat you plop yourself in it. Gentleman get in the way when they dodge around being chivalrous.
'nyways, I sit down, still engrossed in my book when they lady I sat down next to says, "excuse me, don't you rather want to let that lady sit down?"
I think I put on my "What the fuck? Me?" look and then looked up at the lady who'd been behind me all the time.
A skinny lady, but she'd been slouching a bit, pushing her small belly out a bit.
She looked down at the lady who spoke to me and said she was ok, was getting off at the next stop and then it hit her:
"Oh. You think i'm pregnant?!!!"
I didn't know who to pity the most.
The slim lady who'd been called pregnant or the woman who'd made that fatal mistake.
Christ, and I thought men got "the stare" ® if we hesitated before answering the "does this dress make me look fat?" question.
I've never seen anyone flayed with a look before...
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