I'm completely oblivious. Or am I?

Okay, this whole post was triggered by a link I saw on Facebook, oddly enough.  So you'll have to read this other thing before my thing will make a whole lot of sense.  Here it is (the picture is enormous, this is only a sized-down version, so you're probably going to have to go to the link below to actually read it.)

http://www.tickld.com/x/12embarrassinstories

Okay, now that those few who read this have also read that, on with what I'm going to say: I'm puzzled by this.

I've pretty much always felt like I was completely blind when it came to "figuring out if a girl likes me" situations, or picking up on "hints" that someone might be trying to give me.  And yet... most of these examples (which I'm guessing are intended to show how oblivious a "normal" guy can be in this kind of situation) seemed incredibly obvious to me.  Oh, and a friend who also posted this on Facebook said that he got through several of them without suspecting anything before he figured out what was going on in these situations.  So my initial thought of "well, it's probably just as obvious to everyone else because these are probably exaggerated for comedic purposes" probably wasn't entirely the case.  These aren't obvious to everyone; at least some real guys who are not named Eddie don't find all of these as obvious as I did.

Now the specifics--and yeah, that means you're about to get my run-down of every last one of these and a description of how obvious (or not) I would find it if I was the guy in the situation...

1. First of all, a girl has freaking asked me on a date so I would be assuming she likes me in some way from the very beginning.  Attn: girls--please actually do that at some point, if you'd be interested in going on a date with me in the first place.  Having a girl ask me on a date would make things SO much easier on my end of things, since asking is hard.  Anyway... assuming "she leans in on the couch" means she's leaning on me, yeah, again, this would be incredibly obvious.  Also, I've seen Jerry Springer before so that part wouldn't happen anyway.  I'd be far more interested in the fact that she is apparently changing into her pajamas right there in the same room with me. XD
   
2. Probably one of the most obvious on here.  First of all, she's freaking kissed me already, so (again) I'm going to assume she likes me in some way already by that point.  Second, if someone says something like that shortly after kissing me, the only possible way I could interpret it is that she wanted to do more than just kiss me and was sort of indirectly suggesting it.
   
3. Not immediately obvious, but after several repeats of the girl insisting on staying behind with me I'd probably wonder if something was up.
   
4. Again... probably one of the most obvious.  I don't think much more needs to be said.
   
5. This is probably the only one on the list that wouldn't even make me suspect anything.  I wouldn't be getting a Diet Coke (or a diet anything, for that matter), though.
   
6. Incredibly obvious.  Also mildly terrifying, especially if this coworker was not someone I already knew very well.  Not so much an "I wouldn't notice" situation as an "I might be scared off by this" situation.
   
7. Not too obvious, but I would at least suspect something if a girl specifically asked if I wanted to sit right next to her rather than just asking me to sit down in a more general/vague way.
   
8. If they were strangers, I would probably be slightly freaked out by this situation.  I may or may not end up sitting and talking to them a bit anyway.  If they were people I knew, it would be at least sort of obvious.
   
9. A bit like #7, but more obvious.  Someone who specifically approaches me and asks me to come over and talk to them alone? Yeah, that would probably raise some suspicions.  But grabbing my hand while shooing some sketchy guy away? Yeah, that makes it obvious.
   
10. I might not suspect that she liked me right away, but if this was someone I got along well enough with that we could talk and play pool together for a couple hours, I definitely would want to keep talking to her afterward.  I don't think I'd ever actually choose to just walk off home by myself if I had any other option that didn't involve me being alone...
    
11. Again... incredibly obvious.  Especially if she is already sleeping in the same bed with me at the time.  How could someone not suspect something here??
    
12. Not the most obvious.  I'd be more likely to be like "uh, I dunno, I've never really had coffee, I don't think I'd like it much, I guess I could try some though" rather than "not at 2:00 AM."  Unless I had to get up annoyingly early the next morning, anyway.

 So... yeah.  Out of a list of 12, only one would be something I'd be completely oblivious to.  Only a few more would probably not register as a "she likes me" hint, even though I would end up spending extra time with her in those situations anyway so she'd probably have a chance to make it more obvious later on.  The rest are all so obvious that even I would at least suspect that something was up.

I am so confused now.  Am I actually LESS oblivious to this kind of thing than I thought?  I am somehow less oblivious than the average guy, even? I thought for sure it was the other way around.  Do these only seem obvious because I'm reading about another person's situation, not actually being in them myself, or would they be just as obvious if they actually happened? I suppose maybe they would be now, if a similar situation happened in real life, since I'd be able to remember "oh hey, this is like that one thing from that list and it seemed really obvious to me there" and notice that.

Now I'm starting to wonder if maybe the next time I get suspicions that some girl may like me, I should put those thoughts in the "this is probably true on some level, until proven otherwise" pile instead of ignoring them or writing them off as just me reading too much into things.  I mean, I know for a fact that I do sometimes read too much into things (one girl that I suspected of liking me at one point in the past was later proven to have not ever liked me in that way, or even considered me as a possibility thanks to the age gap), but maybe now I'll be able to tell myself "okay, maybe it isn't that every time" and that might help me sort of... pick up on things that are actually intended as hints better in the future.

Wonder when I'll be actually able to test my newly-discovered maybe-not-completely-blind-after-all guessing abilities.  I do sort of have suspicions that one person might be starting to like me... there've been a few moments that definitely set off the "whoa, people don't normally say things like this to me, where is this coming from" alarm.  Seriously, some things that were said could've come straight out of the "how to give a compliment that Eddie will actually appreciate in a meaningful way rather than being confused or disbelieving of it" handbook, if such a thing existed.  Of course, compliments are still weird for me so my reaction probably came across as confused and/or disbelieving anyway, but on the inside it was more like "holy crap, that's just about the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me."  So... I'm kind of starting to wonder there.  There's also still the lingering "who's the unidentified girl at SVU who apparently liked me a year ago?" question, assuming whoever this was hasn't already graduated/left on a mission/left for some other reason or just lost interest by now (it has been over a year now, after all.)  I have pretty definitively crossed one of my original guesses off the list at this point (I suspect someone who liked me wouldn't randomly un-friend me on Facebook for no apparent reason!), and another of my original guesses is no longer around, so I'm down to only one of my original guesses.  And... one other person who for some reason I didn't consider as a possibility at first, even though I know she was there at that dance where I was informed that someone else who was there apparently liked me, and she also fits into the other vague descriptions I was able to get out of the person who informed me of this.  I'm actually kind of leaning toward this previously-not-considered person as the most likely identity of the mysterious girl-who-apparently-actually-liked-Eddie-at-some-point at the moment.