Misreading a situation can be awkward but misreading actual words and reacting on them as if what you thought you read was the reality, super blows.
My eyeballs scanned this dumb quiz on Bing.com and I not only read it wrong, but screenshotted it in smug delight at the mistake I thought I had caught, and double-smugly texted it to someone to lulz over…
What I thought I had read was that the question was asking what Astronomy is and the correct answer is the study of stars, but when I clicked that option, it said “sorry, but that’s not the right answer. Try again.”
As anyone who has glanced at my anti-Richard or hatemail sections knows – I have this reaction every time I think it’s obvious that I’m right and have been pushed back against as if I wasn’t and can’t help but to log it so as to spotlight it and archive this unjust persecution for history to share in my scoffing at. I was probably wrong and deserved that admonishment at least once in the past, but this is the first one I had announced an event for, only to open the curtains and reveal that I was the one that had made the error.
In this case, after the quiz told me that Stars isn’t the right answer, I deduced that it thinks that “horoscopes” is the right answer because the dummy who made the quiz mixed up “astrology” and “astronomy”. Giddy with the butterflies that flap within the soul when some fool has the stones to presume to correct me when they’re wrong, I sent the text and started this blog and then deleted all of it to write this one instead after I realized that yes, “horoscopes” is the answer they wanted, but no, it’s not because the quiz-master goofed on the words. The question asks what does astrology NOT deal with… that’s what the word “except” means, dumbass. And so here it is, in the same archival history vault I originally intended to post it under, only now with the admission of shame instead of the gloating power of a martyr.
Update: This same crap happened again a few weeks later where I got online with Amazon support to complain about having a supplement I didn’t urgently need but chose expedited shipping anyway because of what I thought was labeled — wait, hold on. I actually don’t remember what happened here. All I remember was that I thought I read that the product had free shipping with my Prime membership or something and when I got the $6.00 charge for it, I complained with Amazon support, again smugly pasting the things-i-read-wrong to them as if it were evidence that I was right, only to have the polite Indian gentleman kindly explain to me that the words I had pasted mean exactly what they mean, and not what I weirdly re-tooled them to mean in my head. I forget the exact verbage though, so this add-on isn’t as good as I thought when I first started it.
Anyway – the point is that it sucks to operate under a delusion and then be woken up to it in a context of you protesting that which you were deluded over and these experiences help me empathize with all the poor saps on Facebook and elsewhere that clearly do this with fact-checking topics that they edited in their head when I play the part of Indian tech support on correcting them as to what words mean.
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