Amusing Situations.

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Sometimes I say things that are not the type of answers people have expected. For example, today I went to fetch a rissole and chips each for my Mum and I, and while the young lady serving me who was about 16 to 18 years old... Well. She decided to become a bit chatty. She asked me "Have you been up to anything interesting today?
"Yes. I was in work" I replied.
"What as?" She asked.
"Myself" I replied.
She found my reply funny... "Oh. You mean what sort of job I do?" And then I told her about it.
As she thought I was amusing I decided to tell her a joke but it didn't work. She didn't get my odd humour. Oh well! Not everyone does.

It is easy to say unexpected replies like that when one has a different idea of what the question is. It reminds me of another situation when I used to work the trains as a conductor/guard (Collects and issues tickets etc).
I was working a train and I arrived at a local station. A few passengers boarded. One of the first passengers I reached was a young man who was about in his mid 20's. The conversation went like this... He started talking first.
"What's happening my Man" he said.
"We are on a train going to Swansea. The next stop is Llanelli..." I replied as he started to smile and laugh (He seemed much amused by meeting me!
He replied "Say what?"
Rather puzzled I said "What", which made him even more amused.
Chuckling he said "Say what?" to which again I replied "What?"
Umm... This conversation didn't seem to be working. I don't get this modern lingo.
Anyway. We did manage to make some sense to each other and I was able to do my job and carry on to the next person having brightened up his day!

Conversations can be quite interesting and humourus when we can be talking at different levels,either using the same words but we match differe t meanings to those words then others do, or being entirely puzzled by the use of words that people use...

One of the most amusing I find is one I hear one of my friends use... When someone has died... Lets say someones mother has died... They would say "He's buried his Mum". They don't actually mean he has actually buried his mother. It is more a local saying they use in the next county along from here, which is about ten miles east. When he says "He's buried his Mum" I replied "What? With his own hands?"

Anyone else think of times we may say things on or at a different level or angle to the one we are talking to?

Sometimes I say things without thinking, but I don't mean inappropriate things, and it's not always embarrassing, but it is hilarious when the other party corrects me but finds it funny at the same time.

When I was with my friend, who lives (and grew up) in a different town to me, I asked her if she'd ever been to my hometown before. She said no, and then without thinking I said, "I have" and started to explain how nice it was there - when my friend laughed and said, "course you have, you live there!" I suddenly realised what I had said, and I laughed too. That was funny.

At my old job I remember once when I was told to clean a stain up off the floor, they told me to give it a lot of elbow grease. I had never heard of that expression before, so I asked, "what's that? Have we got any?" They laughed, not in a nasty way. Then when one of them told me that elbow grease meant strength or something like that, I laughed too. Hilarious!

I have been in similar situations. Recently, in the airport on the way back from a trip abroad, one of the staff came over to ask us some security questions. During the questioning she was making small-talk as well, mainly with my other family members. However, then she turned to me and asked, "where do you go to school?", me, (thinking she meant the question as a security question), proceeded to give her the full formal name and location of my school, as well as what grade I would be entering. It was only after her tone shifted and she paused for a few seconds after my response that I realized she had meant the question as part of the small-talk, and not as a formal security question.

I also tend to, "forget", my name a lot in introductory conversations due to overthinking my next responses. This always causes an awkward chuckle from both parties.

When I introduced my Mum to a friend I said "I have known her all my life".

Sometimes I have said something funny without realizing it, and then after I have used it as a joke. Like I once said about a man I knew thag I had not spoken to him foe a while. I then explained that he had died a few years earlier. (Puzzling why the one I told thought it was funny). Things like that.

I also tend to repeat phrases or jokes if people laugh/react positively. However, at a certain point I just end up killing the joke from overuse, sometimes repeating the same phrase to the same people multiple times in a week.

Occasionally people call me on the repetitiveness, but I don't know if it is really a trait of being on the spectrum, or me just being a, "person of routine", in general