# "Do you know where X is..." - interpretation? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 12, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-where-x-is-interpretation/441128 "2008-03-12T17:33:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-where-x-is-interpretation/441128/41 "2008-03-13T23:46:31Z")
God, I wish I got asked; then I could say “No” and get back to reading. I get the ‘stressful looking around approach’; drives me batshit. Actually, I tend to say, ‘No, want me to help look?’, but I reserve the option to go on reading. [QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] … at the time I thought, “How rude!”, but in hindsight the guy was probably fresh from giving Linux help to newbies on IRC or something. [/QUOTE] No, the guy was channelling my late father, and being a right royal pain in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-where-x-is-interpretation/441128/42 "2008-03-14T03:57:08Z")
[QUOTE=j666] God, I wish I got asked; then I could say “No” and get back to reading. I get the ‘stressful looking around approach’; drives me batshit. [/quote] You wouldn’t have gotten away with it. **Everyone** in Old Town knows how to get to the Old Town Transit Center from their place of work. This is an immutable law of the universe which was discovered by Albert Einstein during his vacation to Sea World. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-where-x-is-interpretation/441128/43 "2008-03-14T04:12:05Z")
[QUOTE=Daerlyn] I constantly ask my husband to find things because he is much better at finding my stuff than I am - I tend to suffer from hysterical blindness after a few minutes of looking for things. Of course, I usually phrase it as “I can’t find X! HELP!” [/QUOTE] This is completely me, and “hysterical blindness” is the best way to describe it. I’m a reasonably intelligent and capable person, but I regularly lose every damned thing I touch. Shoes, bra, glasses, books, mp3 player, phone…you name it, I have lost it. Sometimes he tries the “I don’t know. Where was the last time I wore your bra?” And then I freak out because _ohmygodwe’releavingin5minutesandIcan’tfindanything_. Of course, the upshot of this is, he never asks me where something is. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-where-x-is-interpretation/441128/44 "2008-03-14T04:41:06Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Oh, great! :: shoulders slump with relief :: Do you know where my old keyring is, you know, the yellow plastic one that sort of looks like a mountain-climber’s carabiner? I haven’t seen it in months. Thanks! 🙂 [/QUOTE] Dude, you got to follow directions. _Phone_ **Aangelica** , not post your request in a message board. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-where-x-is-interpretation/441128/45 "2008-03-14T20:50:18Z")
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