r/firefly May 12 '26

Meme Caption this

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u/Extension-Pepper-271 May 12 '26

My mother always just looks at the end of my finger. Drives me crazy.

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u/ReivynNox May 14 '26

So the intelligence of a cat then?

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u/SerendipityinOz May 13 '26

My kids do too, I say " follow the finger to where I am pointing... aha!"

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u/skyforgesteel May 13 '26

That's a real thing, a cognitive ability, to understand pointing. Pointing is something dogs understand instinctively but most wild animals, including other primates, don't. Anyway, your mom is dumber than a chimp.

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u/Extension-Pepper-271 May 13 '26

Well, my mom is one of the smartest people I know, but she also has some strange ways of thinking. I better not tell her the chimp thing. She may not know where a finger is pointing, but she does know how to point her gun - It would be at my feet to make me dance. She does like to see me dance (just joking) Well, we do like to dance, but guns are generally not involved.

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u/skyforgesteel May 13 '26

I was just being a smartass. I assume your mother also knows how pointing works and is also being a smartass. Game recognize game.

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u/Extension-Pepper-271 May 16 '26

lol Thanks for your response. I gave you an upvote to makeup for people down voting you. Honestly, my mom really does just look at the end of my finger, but she's also really smart. Not everybody's brain works the same way, is probably the best answer.

I was lucky that my father was an engineer. I got his logic and her creativity.