That’s me, when someone explains board game rules.
There’s a funny variation of it, when the other party is giving verbal instructions but they have an implicit message that you obviously don’t get and execute them exactly as told, failing successfully.
I call this my brain mariachi band. It often starts playing when someone is telling me Something Important.
Any instruction that is greater than two steps needs to be written.
I need a grocery list if there are more than three items.
Especially when they’re trying to explain directions to me.
Just give me the address, or even coordinates. I can figure out how to get there, thanks.
People in Chicago were the best at this I’ve ever met. No, “Turn when you see the hoot owl on the left fence post.”, crap. “Go west on 59, turn south at $street.”
I know a few older people that always give me instructions, but they use antiquated terms for the things they’re talking about and get mad at me for only having been born a measly 30 some years ago
oh and often times, the instructions they give are way more complicated and counterintuitive than they need to be. when I find an easier and simpler way to do it they get mad at me
then there’s boomers that try to oversimplify things that actually are complicated and must be done a specific way
Antiquated terms? I honestly don’t know what you’re talking about.
Like calling a couch a “davenport” just to name on example, but sometimes old people look at me like I’m crazy for not knowing the technical terms about cars
