Annoying ignorant hearing people stories

deafskeptic said:
I had a nurse tell me the other night that I was quite intelligent for knowing why I have surgery scars on my chest, left arm and right leg. (All are a result of my heart bypass surgery). I'm thinking is this nurse for real when I asked her if she actually met people who had no idea why they had scars like mine. I'm thinking oh great I have an audist on my hands. :P
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*smh*

That kind of reminds me of the time I brought my car to a repair shop. The guy at the counter beamed at me every time he asked me a question and I answered it. He said "you're doing quite well!" and I asked why, he said he had no idea deaf people knew anything. Oh, and, the questions? My name, address, and license plate number. Um.....
 
"How can you work if you can't hear?"

"HELLLOOOOO? CAN YOU HEAR ME? ARE YOU LISTENING" (usually over the phone)
 
One thing that annoys me is when I respond to something said and ask the person to kindly repeat it because I didn't catch it. They start right back at beginning again and repeat what I did manage to process, but stop just where I need it repeated. When asked to repeat it again - same thing happens. I end up having to repeat back what I understood. All in all, it is quite an unnecessary exhausting process.

Another time is when people have big lovely teeth to look at but when talking you can't see past their teeth as they are talking through their teeth. Impossible to lipread.
 
I dont like when hearing people standing in front of me anywhere and talking about you as if you dont know they are talking about you. I mean, do they think we're dat fookin' stupid? Makes my blood boiled. Wanna talk about me, make sure I know what you are saying about me so I can defend myself. Know what I mean? I hate when they leave out important informations about you so they can look at you the wrong way. Is it me or all of us been through it? People lie about you deserve a major butt-whoopin'!
 
These are all great! I originally started this thread so I could win a drinking game (which I lost) but I'm happy to see that it became a place where everyone could laugh about the silly and sometimes stupid things they do. :)
 
Just got a form in Spanish to fill out prescription for my deaf dog at Target. Sometimes people think I speak Spanish when they see me using ASL. This has happened to me twice. Idiots.
 
Lately this one annoying thing hearing do (my family).

They say something I got some part okay and miss out some and when I try to tell them to repeat, they start from beginning from WHOLE thing. I don't want repeat WHOLE thing, I just want you repeat that bit I missed! It goes kinda like this (blah means I got it) (miss means I missed what being said):

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah miss miss miss.

I ask them repeat last few words they go right from start

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah (they stop here).

I ask them why are you stopping, repeat that last one!

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah miss miss miss.

I give up!! They give up!! They make it as if it is my fault somehow.
 
amandaraemay said:
I'm hearing, and I used to work at McDonald's. I am not fluent in ASL, but everytime we had a Deaf customer, I would tell the other workers to send them to my register so we could all avoid confusion, and make ordering a little easier on the customer. One day, I had a customer come up to me and sign their order. I tried to confirm everything, but just to be sure, they wanted to write it down. I got the woman a pad and pen, and she wrote everything down. A shift manager saw us chatting through sign, came over, snatched the paper away, handed her a menu in braile, and spoke really loud and slowly "POINT FOOD YOU WANT PLEASE. HAVE NICE DAY THANK YOU." The customer was really offended and angry, and I had to apologize profusely to her.

Seriously!? Braile menu? She's Deaf, not blind, stupid :roll:
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Jeeze! I cringed as I read this. I bet the manager even thought he was smart while doing that. :roll:
 
Speedy Hawk said:
Lately this one annoying thing hearing do (my family).

They say something I got some part okay and miss out some and when I try to tell them to repeat, they start from beginning from WHOLE thing. I don't want repeat WHOLE thing, I just want you repeat that bit I missed! It goes kinda like this (blah means I got it) (miss means I missed what being said):

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah miss miss miss.

I ask them repeat last few words they go right from start

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah (they stop here).

I ask them why are you stopping, repeat that last one!

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah miss miss miss.

I give up!! They give up!! They make it as if it is my fault somehow.
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Oh, I so can relate to that! ^^^

Oftentimes it is just the very last sentence of something that I missed, so I always say, "can you repeat just that last sentence, please"

And I get, "what? huh?"

Me: "just the last sentence"

And they either repeat it ALL or forget by then what that last sentence even was. Oh well. Nevermind !! :lol:
 
DeafTim said:
I dont like when hearing people standing in front of me anywhere and talking about you as if you dont know they are talking about you. I mean, do they think we're dat fookin' stupid? Makes my blood boiled. Wanna talk about me, make sure I know what you are saying about me so I can defend myself. Know what I mean? I hate when they leave out important informations about you so they can look at you the wrong way. Is it me or all of us been through it? People lie about you deserve a major butt-whoopin'!
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I so know what you mean and it really boils me up too when someone talks about me as if I couldn't understand. I can see your face and your eyes looking at me, so excuse me!
 
shel90 said:
What really made me lose it was when before he walked out the door, he grabbed the taco bell ringer and started swinging it so hard to make loud clanging noises and people turned to look at him. He crossed his eyes and made his lips stretch and said "Babababababa" with flapping his arms like a bird. That made me run out because I couldnt look at the customers and the workers to see their reaction.
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I lost it.
 
shel90 said:
What really made me lose it was when before he walked out the door, he grabbed the taco bell ringer and started swinging it so hard to make loud clanging noises and people turned to look at him. He crossed his eyes and made his lips stretch and said "Babababababa" with flapping his arms like a bird. That made me run out because I couldnt look at the customers and the workers to see their reaction.
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Ohhh i d love to meet your brother.. i am laughing hard after reading your previous posts and this one. oh my god!! LOL!!!!
 
Grummer said:
or say, I felt like a cute puppy now, can i LICK your hands?? do you want to enjoy licking hands? Im gay, and I like women , wanna join me?"
LOL
watch her responses (or the future "How cute: morons
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LOL @ felt cute like a puppy now, can I lick your hands??

Pls add: Pee on your foot??
 
"But you wear a hearing aid! Isn't that supposed to make you hear like a normal person?"

......

So because you have perfect hearing that makes you normal???
 
lanapoo said:
One time I went to a church with a guy I was dating at that time, a woman showed up behind us when we were sitting on a pew and started hollering, "Tell God you love Jesus Christ and he will heal you!!" She started preaching to us and shook our heads around as if it'd cure our deafness. I was half speechless, half bursting with laughter. It was so ridiculous.
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LOL!!

This is how I would react if that happened to me:

...and shook our heads around as if it'd cure our deafness. I gasped and then said "OH MY GOD I CAN HEAR!!" *listens to noises and people* "Oh wait..." *tapping on my hearing aid* "That was my hearing aid. Sorry, that didn't work out. I am still Deaf."

A couple of stories from my friends:

1. One was given a Braille menu at a restaurant.

I do have a routine all set up in my head in case I get to experience the same situation :naughty: Wanna know? Ask me ;)

2. Another friend mentioned that a woman had discovered he was deaf and said "I am so sorry!" He responded with "Why? What did you do?" :laugh2:
 
kristy2078 said:
LOL!!

This is how I would react if that happened to me:

...and shook our heads around as if it'd cure our deafness. I gasped and then said "OH MY GOD I CAN HEAR!!" *listens to noises and people* "Oh wait..." *tapping on my hearing aid* "That was my hearing aid. Sorry, that didn't work out. I am still Deaf."

A couple of stories from my friends:

1. One was given a Braille menu at a restaurant.

I do have a routine all set up in my head in case I get to experience the same situation :naughty: Wanna know? Ask me ;)

2. Another friend mentioned that a woman had discovered he was deaf and said "I am so sorry!" He responded with "Why? What did you do?" :laugh2:
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I'm curious about this routine you have set up....:hmm:
 
StevieMont927 said:
I'm curious about this routine you have set up....:hmm:
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I would go ahead and pretend to read the Braille menu with my finger tips, appear to be turning gears in my head, then go like "I would like loopy spaghetti, green french fries, and tomato lemonade, please" or something silly. Then reach for a regular menu and order from that :P
 
kristy2078 said:
I would go ahead and pretend to read the Braille menu with my finger tips, appear to be turning gears in my head, then go like "I would like loopy spaghetti, green french fries, and tomato lemonade, please" or something silly. Then reach for a regular menu and order from that :P
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I like, I like. Throw them for a loop! That's the way to do it!!! If you do that, have someone take a pic of the waiter's face.
 
Steinhauer said:
I was grocery shopping several years ago when two women, in their early 20s came up to me to tell me I was wearing hearing aids because I was a sinner. They said God had decided to punish me for doing evil things by making me hearing impaired.

At first, I thought it was some kind of a sick joke. I had never met them before, I had not even noticed them - they walked up behind me and tapped my shoulder and started telling me all this. I just stood there and was like :shock:

I told them to leave me alone and stopped shopping ... just left. I did not hang around to find out what "sect" of Christianity they represented ... but it was that day that I realized why Christians get such a bad rap.
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These were not Christians. They were people claiming to be. Big difference.
 
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