It is a much easier world when you take things that people say at face value, or at least check your assumptions. Trying to read between the lines just complicates things and how many times have you been correct with it? My batting average was zero. This is why I stopped. As I have said many times, if you don't directly tell me I won't know because the only things that exist for me are what a person tells me. If they didn't say it, it doesn't exist.