begin mid-conversation...
Person: So I guess you not goin to no (insert random name here) parties no more?
Mala: And why the fuck won't I? Shit, I'm going with my smile in place and my carriage erect.
Person: You gonna take a baby to a party?
Mala: Huh?
Person: Well you said you was takin yo carriage. Why you gonna take a baby?
Mala: Oh good lord....
end conversation abruptly
car‧riage [kar-ee-ij] –noun
1. a wheeled vehicle for conveying persons, as one drawn by horses and designed for comfort and elegance.
2. baby carriage.
3. British. a railway passenger coach.
4. a wheeled support, as for a cannon.
5. a movable part, as of a machine, designed for carrying something.
6. manner of carrying the head and body; bearing: the carriage of a soldier.
7. Also called carriage piece, horse. an inclined beam, as a string, supporting the steps of a stair.
8. the act of transporting; conveyance: the expenses of carriage.
9. the price or cost of transportation.
10. (in a typewriter) the moving part carrying the platen and its associated parts, usually set in motion to carry the paper across the point where the print element or type bars strike.
11. management; administration.
People... just because it is the only meaning that you know of, does not mean a word has only one meaning.
Get with it.
Thanks.
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