Total Aspie moment at work

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I was inputting a form that respondents had circled numbers on (circle 1 if your child SOMETIMES exhibits these traits, two if often, three if VERY often, etc.). At one point, there was a spot where two numbers on opposite sides (0 and 3) were circled. So, I called up the one who knows how to enter these forms correctly. She asked me, "What do the others around it look like?" (She meant, are there 3s around it, 2s, etc. as she later told me)
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True to aspie form, I said, "They're circles." We both had a laugh about that

This reminds me of when I was driving bus for a local Christian youth event. We were in the drivers area during the church service. One of the fellow drivers was a minister in his spare time. He asked me if I was born again. Without even hesitating, I said "No, I am just a driver."

We have to be able to laugh at ourselves first.

Haha

I'll confess this one, and will add that I was QUITE new on the job and young!

I work as a proofreader. Someone wrote, "that's like the pot calling the kettle black." I'd never heard the phrase before.

In my comments I wrote, "that doesn't make sense; a pot and a kettle are both black."

No one said anything, but later I figured out what it meant. Now I think it's clever and I use it a lot.

Ok, I don't get it.

Blastoff - I will see if I can explain it.

The saying is used when someone who has a particular trait makes a nasty comment about another person having the same trait.
So it would be like someone who is always rude to other people complaining about someone being rude to them. Instead of saying well you are rude as well, which they might get offended about, you would say, well that is like the pot calling the kettle black. However, it seems to me that people usually say it about other people than to the person themselves as I guess the saying could also cause offence.

Did that make any sense?

Thanks, Brennan.

I understand the pot and the kettle part, but the OP's story has me totally lost. I'll keep working on it.

Ohh! I'm sorry...I thought you were talking to him >.<

Basically, I'm doing data entry. Parents of kids who (or are suspected to) have Autism/Asperger's will circle either 1, 2, 3, or 4 (poor, average, more than average, etc.) When I called my supervisor up at work, someone had circled a 1 and 4. I asked her which one I should use. She said "What do the others look like?" Meaning are there more 1s circled near this items, 2s, etc. I took it literally and said "They're...circles?"

I hope that helps