Wonder if the researcher stood poised with clipboard and pen awaiting the subject’s response.
Back in grad school I got lucky in a bar one night.
I saw a woman at the bar waiting for her drinks and I was taken by her beauty. My eyes followed her as she walked from the bar alone with her two drinks (it was 2 for the price of 1 night) and stopped at a railing on the balcony overlooking the dance floor. As I was planning on approaching her to chat her up some guy comes out of nowhere and walks up to her. He leans over and says something into her ear. She hadn’t even have a chance to take a sip of her drinks yet and she is now grabbing her coat and leaving with him!
Lucky for me I had the presence of mind to walk up to where she was standing and salvage the 2 untouched whiskey sours.