You ask your coworker if the report's due Friday or Monday. She says, "Yeah, so the report needs to be turned in." You nod slowly, waiting for the actual answer to land. It doesn't. You ask again—same response, word for word, like she's a GPS recalculating the same useless route. Eventually you just guess Monday and move on, knowing if you're wrong it's somehow still your fault for not listening carefully enough to her saying nothing twice.