Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>>>> Trying to visualize you running across people in your bedroom...
>>>>
>>>> Weird.
>>>
>>> Not as weird as the picture *I* had in my head when I mis-parsed your 
>>> sentence as "running *across* people in your bedroom"... o_O
>>>
>> Where was the mis-parsing in that?
> 
> To "run across" somebody is a figure of speech. I took it literally. [As 
> in, I had visions of people laying on the ground and having me run 
> across them, sort of like crowd surfing...]
> 
Me too. Note that English is not my mother tongue (indeed my mother has 
that horrible 1950's Dutch accent when trying to speak English.) so it 
is probably more easy for me to take figures of speech literally. It may 
also come from reading too much Pratchett.

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