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[Pedro Picasso]

lately it seems like my weakness is that people will always think I am being Completely Serious when I jokingly say mean or offensive things.
Also, that people who are doing some kind of service for me (serving my dinner, bagging my groceries) will misunderstand something I say and think I'm insulting them, or failing to tip, etc. Normally I am just being paranoid, but I have gotten some major Dirty Looks this week.

You might just be paranoid.  Whenever I'm in a bad mood, I notice all of my social interactions are terrible, even when I'm trying to be nice.  But when I bring it up later, people say, "No, you were fine yesterday.  There's no problem."  Maybe we just interpret things as dirty looks when we feel bad to begin with.

[Carlos del Vaca]

lately it seems like my weakness is that people will always think I am being Completely Serious when I jokingly say mean or offensive things.

I have the opposite effect.  I can say something mean and offensive and have people think I'm joking.

Softball player on the team Carlos used to manage:  "Justin's really good!  Why don't you play him more often?"
Carlos:  "Because I don't like him."
"Ha!"
"You think I'm joking."

[theinevitable]

oh, no, see.

I carried a ton of groceries by hand up to the register, and then the girl put them into bags, and I said "huh, I guess that was pretty stupid..."
and she got an upset look on her face and said "oh, did you want it in different bags, sir. Did I hear you wrong?"

Any time where I have to explain my behavior by saying "oh, no, I was just talking to myself" is a net loss in my book.

edit/update: my other weakness would be that... somehow I get disoriented and wake up 3 hours early, walk across campus, and take a few minutes to realize I wasn't supposed to be in class until 1 PM today.