I KNEW we had more in common! Yeah, I take things very literally too. Can't think of a specific example now....but it sure can get you into trouble....

O wait, I just thought of one: this had as much to do with youth and ignorance as taking things literally, I think. My parents and I were at some historical village (one of those history re-created places) and were listening to a talk being given about the different beauty marks that people of the time period used to sport, and where they placed them on their faces. The man giving the talk told us that men would wear a certain spot in a certain place to indicate that they were lady-killers. I said, "But why would anyone advertise the fact that he killed women?" Yeeeess.

(Wish blokes wore those now. Save me a lot of grief. )