I hate when they just repeat/reexplain the instructions and treat me like an idiot.

I didn’t ask “how” I asked “why”.

I understand how in the day to day people rely on shortcuts to understand people. But even when I explicitly ask to interpret the literal words I am saying they still jump around the question.

It gives me the urge to write the question down and give it to them like an essay question, maybe then they’ll see how much of a no sequitur their response is.