Transportation: Today, I was sitting on the train when some crazy man started...

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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By Come on - 29/01/2012 00:46 - United States

Today, I was sitting on a bus. I'm deaf. An old lady looked very angry at me and started talking. Then she looked like she was screaming. I had to type on my phone that I'm deaf. Apparently, I'd been stepping on her foot. She decided to poke me in the eye and type, "Now you're blind too." FML

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By anna - 22/12/2011 21:25 - France

Today, while waiting for my train, I was listening to a voicemail message on my phone. Out of nowhere, a stranger came up to me from behind and screamed "DELETE!" into my ear. His voice command deleted my message. FML

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By Scumbagmemory - 22/01/2012 04:17 - United States

Today, I was texting a guy that one of my friends told me about. She gave me his number and told me about how he was deaf. Three hours into great conversation I forgot and asked him what his favorite music was. FML

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By Anonymous - 15/09/2012 18:34 - United States - Metairie

Today, I was walking to school with my earphones in, when someone tapped me on the shoulder. I was shocked, and whirled around to hit him in the crotch. I soon realized he was just trying to return the commuter pass I'd dropped at the station. FML

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By human lava lamp - 10/03/2013 19:54 - United States - New Britain

Today, I was at the airport, when a lady came up and loudly asked if she could sit next to me. I have serious social issues, so to avoid having to talk to her, I pretended I was deaf and couldn't hear her. She immediately broke out her sign language skills. FML

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By silenceisgolden - 23/03/2020 01:39

Today, a guy on the train was using his phone really loudly, asking Siri to call a bunch of people, or using voice command to do the most menial things. He was really, really noisy. It's only after I couldn't stand it any more and asked him to be quieter that I noticed the white cane next to him. FML

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By xoccerplaya - 06/10/2011 10:46 - United States

Today, I forgot what I was doing while listening to a voicemail and started talking back to it. FML

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By SkinsCastSelection - 17/01/2011 16:46 - France

Today, I was quietly reading in the subway, when all of a sudden, at a station, the man sitting next to me stood up, slapped me, yelled "Bitch!", and rushed off the train. FML

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By Anonymous - 07/04/2011 13:28 - United Kingdom

Today, a guy who annoys me walked over. To avoid speaking to him, I pretended to be on the phone and he walked away. A few moments later, my phone rang. I looked around to see if he'd seen me. He had. He was the one ringing me from down the hall. FML

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By sleeper - 02/03/2010 05:05 - France

Today, I was on the train when I fell asleep. Everything would have been fine but I was suddenly jerked awake by the very loud sound of my own fart, followed by the stares of many strangers. FML

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Rathmec 0

Friday 31 July 2009 22:50

I guess faking a serious impairment is always okay.

DameGreyWulf 0

Friday 31 July 2009 22:51

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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emikinz 0

Saturday 1 August 2009 5:15

lmaaao :) bummer. well it's not like you'll see him again ... probably.

SookMauNoots 0

Saturday 1 August 2009 5:18

if i wer you i wudnt really give a flyin ****

daarlingdamsel 0

Saturday 1 August 2009 5:42

Now, I think you deserved it because it was a rather rude thing to do. Not pretending to be Deaf, but snubbing the guy like that. Poor guy is probably lonely! I think you would feel a lot better about yourself knowing you brought a little happiness into someone's life by talking to them :) With that said. I know many Deaf and deaf people. None of which I think would get their undies all in a bunch about this. My mom dated a Deaf guy for years and he was not all crazy like some of these people are making Deaf people sound. No, it's not funny to pretend like you have a disability, but if any of you really knew Deaf people then you would know that they DON'T consider it a disability. Clearly, you guys are lying assholes who are making themselves look really dumb. So...get the **** over it for real and stop getting all ******* worked up over a damn FML, my goodness.

go_rangers 0

Saturday 1 August 2009 6:32

I agree... they were just trying to provide an excuse to not talk to this guy, without just flat out ignoring him or saying "I don't want to talk to you." or "leave me alone." They were trying to let the crazy guy down easily, even if they messed it up. (And I don't think he was just a poor lonely man... I mean I'm from the city, and I see lots of people like talking to themselves and making no sense and cursing and stuff, so when I hear "crazy guy" i think of people I don't want to interact with.) But, this person was not commenting about Deaf culture or belittling Deaf people. I don't see it as making fun of Deaf people or anything... they just wanted to not talk to the crazy guy without having to directly insult them. Obviously the person WASN'T Deaf... it makes hearing people look bad, not Deaf people.