Published on 12, July, 2020
Please feel free to list your experiences with literal thinking or related behaviours whenever you feel like it, and whether these are important or as typically ridiculous as my recent example:
* I ordered a 'personalised' t-shirt from Ebay, graced with the word 'AUTISTIC' in gigantic, glowing capital letters. Wearing this shirt, I thought, would save me the tedium of explaining my more unusual words or deeds to others whenever it might be necessary. Hooray! Alas, after receiving the shirt I realised that it's Winter & resultingly bloomin' freezing so it's likely that the shirt is now as useless as I habitually am. If I wear the neon monstrosity that is the shirt under an opened jacket, its essential message - which ludicrously dwarfs the famous HOLLYWOOD sign, such are my design-skills - will either be lost on the NT crowd, or else appear as some kind of short, ironic and post-sexist anagram. Doh.
Today my neighbour was talking at me about the road we live in and he said that 'the road is getting older'.
He didn't pause for breath, as usual, but I was completely lost at that point.
When he stopped I asked him how the road getting older makes any difference to anything - I mean, everything is getting older.
I'd aged considerably since he started talking.
Then he explained that he meant that the people in the road are getting older.
Doh.
Why didn't he say 'people'?
Debbie, honestly this is where I feel other people have a deficit.
Remainder of message edited for my own sanity.
Awfully confusing situation, I would have thought the same. But isn't it a bit impolite to serve the customers and have a chat on the earpiece with a colleague at the same time...