Kit, your wording was fine! There was no need to change it. I shared the above to illustrate how my mind works, probably something I shouldn't be doing in a public forum though, eh?
Seriously, I didn't think you had any kind of "agenda or subtext" at all! My train of thought struck me as humorous, so I shared it. That's all!
-------------------- "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." -- Sir Isaac Newton