No kidding. Yes, please do tell me about the escape pods right away. Maybe we could even do some safety drills, later?

The weirdest effect was that I kept interpreting events as foreshadowing that weren't foreshadowing: I was convinced "We're really glad you hired a clerk" meant "We're really glad you hired a clerk with unsavory family connections, because we can use them to spark an interspecies diplomatic incident," for example.