Using "custom" as an excuse to refuse

A woman was on a business trip, sitting on the train with a man who looked very cultured. The man took the initiative to chat up with her, and the woman found it boring to sit alone, so she chatted with him. At the beginning, the man was quite regular. He just talked with the lady about the difficulty of taking the bus and exchanged his views on some unreasonable phenomena in today's society. But somehow, talking about it, the man turned the topic and asked the woman, "are you married?"

Obviously, this question may have ulterior motives, so the lady was a little unhappy, but she said to the man calmly, "Sir, I've heard people say that the first half of the sentence is" don't ask about men's income ", so I didn't ask about your income. The second half of the sentence is "you can't ask a woman if she is married", so I can't answer your question. Please forgive me The man also felt a little abrupt when he heard the woman say that. He laughed awkwardly and stopped talking.

This lady not only expressed her dissatisfaction with the other party's impoliteness, but also did not make the other party feel embarrassed. It can be said that she killed two birds with one stone.