If someone asks you 'do you know where something is'?

[Daisypod]

Aibu to assume that of someone asks you where something is and you do then you just tell them?
This morning I asked my husband did he know where a case was? 'Yes' was his reply. I looked at him expecting him to tell me which he didn't do as I hadn't asked him that and I had to specifically ask him where it was to get the answer. Aibu in thinking this was unnecessary?

If it was the first time he'd done it I would presume he was either trying to be funny or feeling in a pedantic mood.
If it was something he did regularly I would think he was a bit of a dick.

My dad does this. Yes or no. Or okay, if a text. I have to say “can you tell mam” to make sure he passes info on to her. Otherwise, he keeps communication to a bare minimum.

I would answer like that, but it would be just to be a dick about because I thought it was funny. If the other person was in a rush or something I wouldn’t do it. Just a normal sort of houseful joke really - we’d all do it to each other tbf.

You know your DH so you know if he was being a dick or not, but some people are SOOOOOO literal!

I have this in my team at work. One or two people take information and questions in a very literal way.

You should definitely watch the 70s version of Airplane - it's almost a case study!

I do this to ds to be a dick!

I wouldn't if it was his keys for example and I knew I'd moved them and we needed to leave.

Generally when it's something he should know the whereabouts of or something of his he's just dumped somewhere and I happen to know that location!

It's dick answer. I'd be really annoyed if my Dh started doing this.
You don't ask where something is out of curiosity you need to know where it is.

It depends if they have consistently been asking me instead of looking for years and years and fucking years including telling me it's not where you said it was when it was in the drawer under a piece of paper and didn't jump out and into their arms. 🤬

That was therapeutic 🤣

But a normal question from someone who doesn't routinely use your brain as additional storage space is fine and should be answered normally.

At least he knew where it was. That'd be massive progress for my DP who never knows where anything is and often asks me and I point it out about 2 feet away from him

But yeah it depends if he was busy/distracted/joking.

I do it to my kids when it's their shoes or phone or something that I have no interest in and they should keep track of.

It depends. I do it because I'm petty and pedantic and after 42 years together my DH knows better than to ask me where something is like that.

If the situation is different - in a hurry "do you know where the defibrilator is?" I'll either tell them or fetch it.

With something that has either a) been put in the wrong place by someone that isn't me or b) not been put back where it should be by someone that isn't me? Pedantic reply rule applies.

It depends if he was joking/if he's said the same before but also on how often you ask where things are - particular if you haven't looked for it properly yourself.

Thanks all. It is something that we haven't used for ages so rather than looking all over I asked him in case he knew. He has form for being pedantic and I just was t in the mood for it.

If he's doing it deliberately to wind you up then it's irritating and tedious, although he probably thinks it's funny.

If he genuinely is so literal-minded that he doesn't realise that's not a normal answer to that question, I would imagine that also manifests in other ways that demonstrate he has some form of neurodiversity.