From your life, can you provide examples of when are you trying to read someone else's mind?

It seems like there are so many occasions where we don’t feel like we can say what we mean, or ask for the straight truth. Sometimes it’s antisocial. Sometimes we’re afraid of what we might hear. Sometimes it’s because we don’t believe the words we hear. It is often said that men and women have tremendous difficulty understanding each other, especially when trying to initiate a relationship. There seems to be a constant need to read tea leaves, since nothing the other person says is believed to reflect what they actually mean. You know that old scene from Annie Hall?

So when do you try to read someone else’s mind, and what happened? Did you ever find out if you got it right or wrong?