Are You Proposing?

Myrrh and I decided that we could avoid awkward interactions in the future by asking men, innocently and confusedly, "Are you proposing?"

Here are some examples of how this could be used. In the first case, and the origin of the idea altogether, when a man asks for your hand and you're pretty sure he doesn't want to hold it but you can't think of any other reason that he would be asking for it (it ends up he wanted to put a bottle cap in it) and you offer it to be held. This awkward situation could have been pre-empted by the question, "Are you proposing?"

In another circumstance, a boy/old man named John with the cat and the hat said, "I guess you're over 21, since you're a teacher?" This really should have been answered with, "Are you proposing?"

How, you may ask, does this solve the awkwardness of the interaction? By putting it all on the boy/man. I guarantee that any boy/man will be so confused that he will forget any other awkwardness of the situation.

Myrrh: Additional benefit/risk: He says yes.