When your attempt to read between the lines goes spectacularly wrong — you connected dots that weren't there, read vibes that didn't exist, or built a whole theory that collapsed the moment the other person opened their mouth. An inference fail is the price of being too clever, the moment the detective gets the plot completely wrong. Embarrassing in real time, legendary in the retelling. Often happens when you're too emotionally invested to think straight or when you project your own assumptions onto someone else's ambiguity.
Massive inference fail on my part — I thought she was hinting she liked me and she was just being polite.
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