I am far from being a child, but many times I ask my mother a question out of the blue. She generally makes an incorrect assumption about why I am asking the question, since the real reason is something she could not have guessed in a million years.
Uh, come to think of it, this exact scenario just happened about a week or two ago. I asked her something about why people got divorced. She assumed I was asking because I am in shidduchim and go out with guys who are divorced. I didn’t want to explain that I was having an argument with someone in the Coffee Room, so I just said that I had had a discussion with someone about the topic and was curious about it.