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Taking Things Too Literally

Wed, 11 Dec 2013, 09:39 PM (-06:00) Creative Commons License

“Cancel it,” he said.

I didn’t understand what he meant.

“Cancel it. Right there.” He pointed to the screen. “Click the X.”

So I clicked the button with the red X on it, the button that said Cancel underneath.

“No!” he said, but it was too late. I had cancelled it. I had click the X. But I had done the wrong thing.

You see when he said “cancel,” he didn’t really mean click on the cancel button, rather he meant close the window.

And when he said “click the X” and pointed to a button with a big red X on it, he didn’t intend for me to click the button, rather he meant for me to close the window.

I guess I just take things too literally.

 

 

 

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