Is all of this really supposed to be a description of actual people? Or what?
FYI this reads as incredulity-as-attack, when you might have instead written 'I'm surprised, because as far as I know, none of the people I've ever met think or behave like that' which would have contained the same critique but come across as 3x less dick
edit: it seems in the spirit of the thread to unroll a little more. Your first comment seemed to say something like 'I'm confused by the words you used,' which when I read it I felt good about th...
1.4) Alex reflects on feeling judged, doesn't like it, and concludes that Bailey is "a downer".
Unrolling of referents: Alex felt it was bad that Alex felt that Bailey felt that Alex leaving out the milk was bad.
2.4) Multiple similar Scale 1 events happen Alex does something X, and ends up feeling that Bailey was "a downer" about it.
Complete unrolling of referents: Alex felt it was bad that Alex felt that Bailey felt that Alex doing X was bad, for multiple values of X.
In the first example, there's [Alex feels that Baily [feels ...
I meant etcetera.
Alex felt bad about the fact that, from Alex's perspective, Baily keeps having bad feels about actions that Alex is taking (things analagous to leaving out the milk)