addendum
I just remembered something that I was thinking as I was trying to fall asleep last night, which made total sense to me at the time.
I was thinking about how I've been worried a few times recently that maybe someone was upset with me, but it's been at a party or other gathering where it was hard to talk to them alone and find out what was up. Last night I was thinking that I just needed a code phrase to signal "everything is fine". That code phrase, obviously, would be "shark fin." And for "something is wrong," I needed a signal that was the opposite of "shark fin." Which, even more obviously, is "eel hippo."
So now you know how to tell me if you're happy or unhappy with me if we're in a public place. I'm just worried that maybe the signals are a bit too obvious. But at least they're easy to work naturally into conversation.
I was thinking about how I've been worried a few times recently that maybe someone was upset with me, but it's been at a party or other gathering where it was hard to talk to them alone and find out what was up. Last night I was thinking that I just needed a code phrase to signal "everything is fine". That code phrase, obviously, would be "shark fin." And for "something is wrong," I needed a signal that was the opposite of "shark fin." Which, even more obviously, is "eel hippo."
So now you know how to tell me if you're happy or unhappy with me if we're in a public place. I'm just worried that maybe the signals are a bit too obvious. But at least they're easy to work naturally into conversation.