ILE daughter: "Mom, what time is it?"
Me: "12:30"
ILE daughter: *looks doubtful and untrusting, then looks at clock* "Mom! It's 12:28! Why did you say it's 12:30?"
Me:
Is this just her? Are other people so precise? And it's about everything. "Mom, that isn't an X, it's a Y, and they're different in this really irrelevant and uninteresting way!" I wish she didn't correct me about every stupid little thing in the world.
If she asks me for the definition of a word, I don't just give her a definition anymore, because she'll give me that same doubtful and untrusting look, and then look it up online and tell me how I didn't define it exactly right. That look that says, "You're just giving me some general ballpark kind of answer, aren't you?"
She also doesn't like when I define something with an example. "It's like when a person does X." . . . *doubtful and untrusting look* "Mom, I asked what the definition of the word was, not 'like what people do.'"
But I just roll my eyes. "Oh, you're very precise, aren't you?" *mom smile*