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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I asked my crush what music he was into, misheard his answer because of background noise, so I spent 5 minutes enthusiastically talking about a band he'd never heard of, thinking we were bonding. When he finally stopped me and clarified, I laughed too loudly out of shame, then knocked over my drink. FML
Today, I was so desperate for human interaction that I asked a deaf girl in my class if she liked music. I actually signed it to her. FML
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
Today, I realized the guy I like is not deaf. This would normally be good news. However, for the past two weeks I assumed he was deaf after seeing him use sign language. I've been openly talking about him within earshot. FML
Today, I was texting this guy that I really liked. Things were going pretty well. I got a call from his number and excitedly answered it. It was his girlfriend asking if he was bothering me because he likes to text random people when he's drunk. FML
Today, I realized that I accidentally said my phone number wrong when I was giving it to a really smart, cute guy with all the same interests as me that I met at a bar last night. I'd had a few drinks and had gotten the middle three digits mixed up. FML
Today, I was talking to a guy I really liked, hoping that he would ask me out. Eventually he asked for my number. I was so excited that I couldn't remember it. FML
Today, I had a hour long conversation with someone I apparently was friends with a few years ago. I couldn't remember who he was for the life of me, so I just played along. Finally, I told him I didn't remember him. He had the wrong number. I had a long conversation with a wrong number. FML
Today, I had a video call with a couple of old friends, but the conversation sort of got boring, so I started mouthing words so they'd think the connection was bad and end the awkwardness. Then, as soon as they hung up the call, I realized I'd left my music on in the background the whole time. FML
Today, I was talking online to this guy, and everything was great. He then sent a voice message and his accent was a deal breaker. FML
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Top comments
omfg_creepers 8
That was DEAFinatly akward.
titopei 0
scumbag, I like that
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Comments (210)
bubo_fml 11
His favorite album is Prince's 'Sign of the Times'...(Geddit?!)
brookie_0841 1
Deaf people can still have a favorite music, they can feel the vibrations, they don't need words.
kayteel2 6
You know I'm deaf and we still actually listen to music. We feel the pulses. So you shouldn't have messed anything up...
morikahjo77 2
Awww! Don't feel bad! I think most deaf people are used to it. I think they are understanding of hearing people. Anyways, everybody screws up. I don't think there was any harm done. He'll understand :)
Pazu_fml 10
In addition to what everyone else says, there are also different degrees of deafness that a person can have. Sort of like how you can be legally blind and still see some things, just not well enough to rely on your sight to the degree that most people do. So yeah, a deaf person may be able to hear and enjoy music to an extent. Not that it's a good idea to assume either way, though it's understandable to forget, especially when you're talking through text.
lmfaoincanada 9
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Armyboy124 0
Silence is a pretty good band.
kboody 1
Deaf people like music too
BellaMarta 19
Just pretend you didn't know.
RS795 8
Deaf people listen to music by feeling the vibrations.