On Saturday, I found myself on the receiving end of a lengthy and rather frustrating phone call with my mother, which left me feeling mentally drained, and not in a particularly good place emotionally.
When my phone rang yesterday, and the caller display confirmed it was my mother, I opted to let my answering machine deal with her call. She left a message, saying, "Hello, it's just me. Okay, bye." Thinking that my nearly 68-year-old mother had been phoning for the purpose of a one-sided lengthy chat (which I wasn't in the right frame of mind for), I thought nothing more of it. I figured that if it was important, she would have said, or at least asked for me to phone her back.
Fast forward to the early hours of this morning. I realised that my mother had sent me a message (after midnight) via Facebook Messenger. It simply said, "Let me know if you see this." I responded with a simple, "Yes".
After getting some sleep, I had awoken several hours later to discover another message from my mother via Messenger. Aside from me thinking there was an accusatory tone, it left me feeling confused. She had said, "So someone was at home then?"
I sent back a message explaining that as my only means of accessing Messenger is via my computer, I would not have been able to respond to her earlier message if I hadn't (a) been at home, (b) had my computer turned on, and (c) been awake. My mother is already well aware of that anyway, hence my thinking it had been a particularly bizarre question for her to have asked.
Earlier this evening, it came to light that my mother's second message had absolutely nothing to do with her first message, but was in fact referring to her phone call yesterday. 
Am I the only one who feels that other people sometimes assume we are mind readers, with the ability to understand vague or ambiguous messages? By 'other people', I'm referring to people in general.
