By Anonymous - 31/07/2009 17:01 - United States

Today, I was sitting on the train when some crazy man started talking to me. I ignored him, and he tapped on my shoulder. He started blabbing and I just pointed to my ears and mouthed, "I'm deaf." He stopped talking. A minute later my phone rang and I answered it without thinking. FML
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Rathmec 0

I guess faking a serious impairment is always okay.

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DameGreyWulf 0

Don't be such a jerk. For all you know... he was telling you the secret of life! Dun dun dun... But no seriously, that plan was doomed to fail in some form.

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sbongy 0

you're pretending to be deaf, not mute...so why would you have to mouth it????

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subarchetta 0

Many people who are deaf also have trouble in their speech.

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daarlingdamsel 0

Yea, a lot of Deaf people can't talk well at all unless they weren't born Deaf.

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go_rangers 0

I've done that... usually with crazy people or people trying to sell me something. It usually winds up being a longer conversation anyways... they try to test me and see if I can read lips or whatever. It helps that I can (decently well, it's really tough) and that I'm fluent in ASL, though. But yeah... it can be pretty offensive to Deaf people, so I try not to do it unless I'm in a really bad mood. If you do that and a Deaf person sees you, it could be pretty uncomfortable.

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daarlingdamsel 0

I think it depends on the Deaf person, if they are Deaf and not deaf yes I would agree, they might get pissed. Some Deaf people aren't all high and mighty on their Deaf cloud though so that's good lol.

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go_rangers 0

Heh, of course. Most Deaf people wouldn't care, but there are some Deaf purists who would be really offended. My friends don't care when I do it, but if I was a stranger they might feel a little differently... or try to catch me in my lie. :)

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et510 0

Well that was a mean thing to do... YDI. Poor guy was just trying to have a conversation.

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luckynotso 0

I've done this before... I'm an ASL interpreter... haha my Deaf friends get a kick out of it.

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go_rangers 0

heh, yeah, I do it all the time when I'm out with my Deaf friends. what makes people come up to a group of people signing and just start talking is beyond me. My Deaf friends are always like... what'd he say?? heh.

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mikey_likes_it 0

I wear hearing aids and talk on my cell phone all the time; and if you walk on a Deaf campus you can see kids talking on their cell phones thanks to hearing aid compatible phones and amplification. It's not impossible.

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fegd 0

what do you care? i'd have done the EXACT same, but on purpose.

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bribria 0

That's how god gets ya! Haha. But dont make a joke like that evem though u want ppl to stop just politely say leave me alone always works(unless he was bonkers)

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