I agree with the sentiment that you can make a lovely drink with vodka and vermouth , but it 's no martini . For me , it needs to consist of ice - cold gin , a smidgen of vermouth , perhaps a bit of olive juice , and a big olive skewered on one of various cocktail picks that seem to reproduce nightly in our dining room . Shaken , not stirred , and poured into the glass quickly before any of the ice in the shaker can melt . While I love stories of extra - dry martini rituals , like FDR making his martinis by filling the shaker with gin and then glancing at the vermouth bottle across the room , I am not militant about the exact amount of vermouth to go in the glass .
Answer the following question: What may be a fact about this person 's drinking habits ?

They are precise about how they drink martinis .

I used to be great at throwing a baseball . I went to a small elementary school where there were nt enough boys to field a full team and my parents never let me sign up for Little League , but I could always find someone to play catch with at recess . These are some of my fondest memories , and I m still friends with one of the boys I played with .
Answer the following question: Why may I have not played in Little League ?

My parents never let me sign up for Little League because I was n't a boy .

I learned to listen for the sound the chain makes when it 's too loose . Eventually I felt confident enough to drive down to Oriental Bay to go for a ride . The homework was an hour to an hour and a half of hills . Under the circumstances I decided to ignore the hill part of the homework .
Answer the following question: What may be the reason why they learned to listen for a sound ?

Because their bike has been broken for a while .

But of course leaving it completely open in the end to whatever came handy on the shopping trip . But as I wrote what seemed like reasonable ideas , I had two concerns : How to get ten or fifteen bucks over to them before they left for Japan ( I can hardly sit in this chair without sliding onto the floor , so I sure ca n't drive today ) . And the other concern was ... when was this trip ? I started fearing they were leaving this weekend , so I made a dash for the phone to give Tabyk or Nessa a call before they left . I tried Nessa first and got her .
Answer the following question: What may happen if they changed their mind and decided to stay home ?
I may save some cash outlay .