It's just that most of the people around us think that we're "too perfect" and we frankly kind of intimidate others because we're... well, I'm going to set aside my qualms and say it-- we're ultra-competent and we seldom make foreseeable errors, because we are very good at thinking things through and dealing with the prevention end of things rather than the consequences one, if that makes sense. We also seem like control freaks because we read the fine print, we ask a LOT of questions, etc.
We don't really judge people who don't, mind you, and we realize that most people
can't really do what we do, and that even a few people who could don't want to be as uptight about it all as we are in the process. It takes a tremendous amount of bandwidth to have a plan A, B, and C for any system failure in your life, and to take preventative action to make sure that none of that is needed to start with. We're people who actually
are prepared for very rare natural disasters, for example.
But yeah, it means that the average person who knows us kind of takes an unholy GLEE in pointing out our errors to all and sundry. Preferably by pointing them out as broadly as is practical. I backed my (7yo) car into a concrete post about 20" high, for example... and there were good reasons why that happened when it did, but it
was fundamentally a bonehead mistake on my part. But one of the neighbors has taken great delight in pointing it out to me. Three times.
