LooNEY: thanks for the horse explanation! I take it that the eponymous horse was not very vocal?
Because I've lived more than half of my life in places that had no electricity, little say television, I've missed out on a lot of the popular culture. Also perhaps because my own cultural background is a bit sideways to the standard! That said, I did recently watch that 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' movie, and many references are now explained, including some stuff in the fanart thread that puzzled me at the time.
I share your disapprobation of people who neither listen nor read the instructions! And start doing something before you have finished giving instructions. And break whatever it is. My husband describes them as 'listening too fast'.
Recent horrid example: I was teaching a workshop on the proper technique of blending perfumes. It was a bigger group than I would myself have chosen to take for that subject; I really don't think perfuming works with more than half a dozen students at a time, because of sensory overload and the potential for breakages and other accidents. However, this was the group I'd been hired to teach in that series of workshops, so was stuck with it.
I was still giving instructions to the group, explaining and demonstrating how to handle the tiny vials of essential oils and absoluts, how to draw the needed amount from said vials and how not to waste or contaminate them (they are wildly expensive, only used in minute quantities, and in some cases irreplaceable), when a voice from behind me said: "How do I cover up a too-strong rose scent?". At which point I realised that one of the students had left the group, gone around behind me to the workbench, and started mixing. On her own. With no concept of what she was doing. This was not a kid, but a middle-aged woman whose paperwork described her as a 'cosmetician', and from whom I would have expected more sense.
Turns out she had dumped a whole vial of Rose Maroc Absolut into a beaker, and added other stuff which didn't at all go with it, and now wanted to tone down the overpowering rose scent. Which came from about $400.00 worth of oil. Which wasn't actually part of the supplied kit, but one of mine which I had brought in to show them what a real one smelled like, as distinct from the cheaper commercial oils they were learning on.
My phrasing in answering her was very formal indeed!