Stupid things non-deafies say

[JClarke]

You're so right about it being stuff so normal that we become numb.

Yesterday, I was concentrating on paying for items with my debit card on a completely trashed and unreadable card machine. The clerk was asking questions I didn't see, so the jerk began yelling. My girlfriend stepped up and told him I was deaf. Before she could explain I needed to read his lips, he rolled his eyes and said, "Like it's my fault!"

She's a little five-nine great-grandmother, but I had to hold her by the coat so she didn't go around the checkout stand and clean his clock.

When the manager got there, my girlfriend and the lady manager had a spirited heart-to-heart about training for diversity, ha ha ha.

Side note: I can't imagine anything more challenging than bi-polar deafness. You're my hero.

no offense, Chase, but good one!

 

[Matilda]

She's a little five-nine great-grandmother, but I had to hold her by the coat so she didn't go around the checkout stand and clean his clock.

Chase, I had never heard of that saying 'clean his clock' before but got the message of what it means. The Aussies (mainly hearies), are forever saying lots of expressions/idioms/slangs in our vocalizations which has become our way of life. My hubby & I are one of them but our deaf friends don't have that understanding of these expressions, they take these words literally. Of course, there are some which I 'don't get it'.

 

[Interpretrator]

The Braille one is definitely a favorite. When I was an ITP student an experienced interpreter told me about how many people asked her that, and I didn't believe her. Well, now I sure do!

The best one had to be this idiotic old jerk of a teacher who should have been retired long ago. He was so, so awful with the student my team and I interpreted for. She took responsibility for this by often asking us to stay afterward to discuss things with him. One time when he was responding to her and she was watching my team interpreting, (and nodding, showing comprehension, etc.) he said "Why don't you look at me when I'm talking to you?

:jaw:

I was sooo glad I didn't have to interpret that bit of idiocy but I'll never forget it!

 

[Chase]

Chase, I had never heard of that saying 'clean his clock' before but got the message of what it means. The Aussies (mainly hearies), are forever saying lots of expressions/idioms/slangs in our vocalizations which has become our way of life. My hubby & I are one of them but our deaf friends don't have that understanding of these expressions, they take these words literally. Of course, there are some which I 'don't get it'.

Ha ha ha. I watch BBC Mystery, and am completely baffled by some of what I see on closed captions.

My sis is very literal and is always texting me, "What means _____?"

I was pretty much up to speed on most US and Western Canada idioms and colloquialisms until I went totally deaf. Now when I see something I can't figure out, I text one of my girlfriend's teen grandsons for the latest.

Last weekend I found much to my surprise that "She's so fly" means "She is very appealing."

 

[Matilda]

Last weekend I found much to my surprise that "She's so fly" means "She is very appealing."

That's a new one to me .... don't like that one, it doesn't seem to mean that at all. Huh?

 

[Dixie]

to me it sounds like her fly is wide open,

 

[Etoile]

Two hands up for Aleser, proving that blind people, and deaf-blind people, can live independently! I used to ride the bus in my town every day, and there was a hearing blind guy who rode it too. I saw him very often around town, he always had his guide dog with him, he seemed very intrepid and quite independent! I never saw him with anyone else, so I think he lived alone. Saying "blind people can't live independently" is as silly as saying "deaf people can't drive or date" you know?