Most of the time, when birds are engaging in distraction displays, they are going to be pretending either that they have an injury or that they're ill or that they're exhausted.
As the evening wore on, the rest of us adopted alogical, if immature, course ofaction: We all pretended to go home and thenreconvened at another bar withouther.
The protest might have petered out had not snipers in plain clothes, assumed to be security men loyal to Mr Saleh, fired into crowds in the capital on March 18th, killing some 50 people.
Every time I made a move to get it some passing eye detected my purpose, and of course I straightened up then, and looked indifferent and pretended that I hadn't been thinking about the pear at all.