LAURIE! Don't write that in here!!!!
I can just picture him out in the shed with a mirror and my grinder. "RAJAH said to grind a mirror to make a telescope". (he has an intellectual disability)
He sliced his finger open last weekend trying to make an old bathroom mirror-tile fit into a PVC pipe!! He was breaking the mirror by hand.
We have to watch everything we say as he takes everything literally. Makes life interesting, and funny at times. If you say things like "I'm freezing" he will look at you and say "where?" He thinks you are actually freezing up.
Don't worry Laurie, It's OK to say grinding mirrors. I was just pulling your leg.
To which Jake would say something like "pulling your leg? does it hurt?"