Annoying ignorant hearing people stories

MintyOreo said:
I've gotten all of the above, and more. Here's one of my favorites:

Other person: Can deaf people wear earrings?
Me: Umm, yeah. Why not? My earlobes are just fine, thank you very much.
Other person: Oh. I thought that deaf people weren't allowed to wear earrings.
Me: How the heck did you get that idea?!? That's stupid.
Other person: I thought that deaf people weren't allowed to wear earrings. Isn't there a law about that or something?
Me: *rolls eyes and sighs in disbelief* You're right, there IS a law about that. We're not allowed to wear earrings, because if we DID wear them, we would be able to read people's minds and have x-ray vision. That's a threat to national security, so they made a law that says that we aren't allowed to wear earrings. *sarcasm font*
Other person: *blushes red and walks away without a good come-back*

This is a true story!!!

Hearing people can be SO ignorant and funny sometimes :giggle:
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So unbelievable the weird ideas people have! :roll:
 
Here's one of my stories from my health care experiences:

I went in for a bone density scan on my forearm. As I always do, I explain I am HOH and wear two hearing aids. I request that they face me, stand close to me, don't talk over their shoulders or with their backs turned to the computer. The usual I always do. The technician had the rudeness (after I was having to constantly remind her when giving me instructions or telling me what came next, to FACE ME instead of turning her back clicking keys on her computer), to tell me next time I should request "extra time" for an appt. because it took too long to communicate with me! I reported her. Grrrrr! :/
 
GrayEagle said:
So unbelievable the weird ideas people have! :roll:
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Oh trust me, I have PLENTY more stories where that came from! I could either get mad at hearing people, or I could laugh. I've recently decided that it just isn't worth it to get angry at them. Instead, I just laugh!
 
MintyOreo said:
Oh trust me, I have PLENTY more stories where that came from! I could either get mad at hearing people, or I could laugh. I've recently decided that it just isn't worth it to get angry at them. Instead, I just laugh!
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True, sometimes that's all you can do, and just shrug & walk away, and chalk it up to ignorance. Mostly I try to explain a bit, but some people, while fully hearing, can't "hear me," you know? :dunno: But, when it comes to my health care, I speak up, for sure! :|
 
GrayEagle said:
Here's one of my stories from my health care experiences:

I went in for a bone density scan on my forearm. As I always do, I explain I am HOH and wear two hearing aids. I request that they face me, stand close to me, don't talk over their shoulders or with their backs turned to the computer. The usual I always do. The technician had the rudeness (after I was having to constantly remind her when giving me instructions or telling me what came next, to FACE ME instead of turning her back clicking keys on her computer), to tell me next time I should request "extra time" for an appt. because it took too long to communicate with me! I reported her. Grrrrr! :/
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Something similar happened to me yesterday. Yesterday, I went into the city for doctors appointments. After I was done with some of my doctors appointments, I decided to go to the mall for a few minutes before my next appointment, because I needed some ear cleaning solution stuff. (The stuff that you clean earrings with. I have VERY sensitive skin, and if I don't clean my earrings every day REALLY well, I get very bad infections. The formula that I use is sold at a specific store in the mall.) I had a notebook and a pen with me, so that I would be able to better communicate with hearing people. I went up to the store that sells the ear cleaning solution stuff. I walked up to the counter and handed the girl at the counter my notebook, which said something like "I'm deaf. Please write notes to me to communicate. Thank you!", and then I had written a note asking her for a bottle of the ear cleaning solution stuff, which is stored behind the counter, and how much it costs.

Now, it should have only taken a minute or two to buy what I needed and get out of the store. But nooooo. The girl looked stunned for a moment, then got a weird look on her face. She started trying to talk to me, but I couldn't understand what she was saying. I wrote her a note, again, asking her to please write notes to me because I can't hear. She then went and got another co-worker, who also was stunned and didn't seem to know how to react. The two girls talked about me for a few minutes, backs turned towards me. I only had a few minutes to get what I needed and out of the mall, because I had another appointment that I had to go to soon. So, I tapped the girls on the shoulder and wrote them a note telling them that I had to hurry, and that I needed to buy a bottle of the ear cleaning solution stuff. The girls got all attitude on me, and ignored me. (I think one of them told me to shut up, but I'm not sure.) I was getting impatient and I really had to hurry, so I went around to the other side of the counter and grabbed a bottle of the ear cleaning solution stuff myself - much to the girls' surprise. I saw the price tag said $8 (including tax), so I put the money on the counter and left.

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That is horrible! :eek3: Too bad their supervisor wasn't there. If it's a chain store, maybe write their corporate offices and tell them about this rude behavior? Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it to make a formal complaint, but if you have to buy from that store in the future, maybe a good idea? That is inexcusable! :pissed: Maybe they were illiterate and couldn't read? :naughty:

Good for you, to get what you needed & paying for it, since they weren't capable of doing their job, selling you the item and taking your $$$. :roll:
 
MintyOreo said:
The girl looked stunned for a moment, then got a weird look on her face. She started trying to talk to me, but I couldn't understand what she was saying. I wrote her a note, again, asking her to please write notes to me because I can't hear. She then went and got another co-worker, who also was stunned and didn't seem to know how to react.
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As someone who has been deaf for almost 40 years, I suggest you just point at your ears and say "Deaf", then write down what you want in the simplest terms (i.e. "Looking for XXXX and XXXX"), no need to explain yourself. This seems to work for all ranges of dumbasses out there.

Some of us with smartphones type notes and show the phone to the counter person.

Warning: there are some really, really stupid people out there, they will give you Braille menus when you write down what you want.
 
I was asked by a hearing guy how I am able to enjoy sex if I can't hear.......
 
green427 said:
As someone who has been deaf for almost 40 years, I suggest you just point at your ears and say "Deaf", then write down what you want in the simplest terms (i.e. "Looking for XXXX and XXXX"), no need to explain yourself. This seems to work for all ranges of dumbasses out there.
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Thanks for the tip! :) I just found the note that I wrote, and it said this:

"I'm deaf. Please write notes to me. Thanks!

I need a bottle of the ear care solution. How much does it cost?"

I THOUGHT that this would be good enough, but apparently, it isn't, because the girl at the counter flipped out :/
 
GrayEagle said:
That is horrible! :eek3: Too bad their supervisor wasn't there. If it's a chain store, maybe write their corporate offices and tell them about this rude behavior? Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it to make a formal complaint, but if you have to buy from that store in the future, maybe a good idea? That is inexcusable! :pissed: Maybe they were illiterate and couldn't read? :naughty:

Good for you, to get what you needed & paying for it, since they weren't capable of doing their job, selling you the item and taking your $$$. :roll:
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Maybe I will write their corporate office. I don't know. I don't go to that store very often - maybe a few times a year, if that. (I buy one bottle of their ear care solution and mix it with something else to make my own formula to use.)

Your right, it's inexcusable. The girls were older teens, maybe college aged. But they should know better. (I'm a teen, too. If I know better, then they are capable of knowing better, too. I know that I'm deaf and they are not, so I do know more about being deaf than they do, obviously. But, that doesn't give them the right to be rude to me, their customer - which they were.)
 
MintyOreo said:
Thanks for the tip! :) I just found the note that I wrote, and it said this:

"I'm deaf. Please write notes to me. Thanks!

I need a bottle of the ear care solution. How much does it cost?"

I THOUGHT that this would be good enough, but apparently, it isn't, because the girl at the counter flipped out :/
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There are plenty of paranoid folks out there....the cashiers probably were wondering if you intended to rob the place but gave them the wrong note....

My best friend is also deaf, and has a heavy nasal monotone voice, and many times people assume he is talking like that on purpose to be insulting, and we've been kicked out of restaurants as kids for that reason.

As you now understand, being deaf is not such a bad thing...until you need to deal with ignorant hearing people.
 
green427 said:
Warning: there are some really, really stupid people out there, they will give you Braille menus when you write down what you want.
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I've had that happen to me before! I decided to play along and pretend to "read" the Braille menu. I was with a couple of (hearing) friends, and this just cracked them up. :giggle:
 
green427 said:
There are plenty of paranoid folks out there....the cashiers probably were wondering if you intended to rob the place but gave them the wrong note....
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True. But I wrote the note right in front of them. And honestly, I don't look scary or threatening at all. I couldn't beat up anyone if I tried :lol:
 
MintyOreo said:
I've gotten all of the above, and more. Here's one of my favorites:

Other person: Can deaf people wear earrings?
Me: Umm, yeah. Why not? My earlobes are just fine, thank you very much.
Other person: Oh. I thought that deaf people weren't allowed to wear earrings.
Me: How the heck did you get that idea?!? That's stupid.
Other person: I thought that deaf people weren't allowed to wear earrings. Isn't there a law about that or something?
Me: *rolls eyes and sighs in disbelief* You're right, there IS a law about that. We're not allowed to wear earrings, because if we DID wear them, we would be able to read people's minds and have x-ray vision. That's a threat to national security, so they made a law that says that we aren't allowed to wear earrings. *sarcasm font*
Other person: *blushes red and walks away without a good come-back*

This is a true story!!!

Hearing people can be SO ignorant and funny sometimes :giggle:
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Man, I have GOT to start wearing earrings! That made my day. Soooooo funny!
 
I have people asking me all the time, oh... did you give your daughter the deaf? the deaf? didn't know that was a thing. But really... most of the hearing people I have come in contact with (mostly everyone I know) has been wonderful about my Deafness. I remember my husband, before he was my husband, trying to talk to me with my back turned... we were at church, and it was the first time we met. My parents politely informed him that I was Deaf, I knew he was talking, but I thought he was trying to talk to someone else. Then he came around, started talking to me... and I couldn't understand a word he was saying... he had a mustache and beard... what was really sweet, the next sunday at church, he had shaved it off completely so I could understand him, and he learned to say a few words in ASL, and asked his dad, who is our Pastor, to get an ASL interpreter for me, so I could understand the message... No one but my parents had ever done that for me (is it any wonder I married him?)...

but even some of the people at church started to be a little stand offish when they found out I was Deaf, and I've heard everything from, how can you drive, to are you allowed to have children (this is even when I'm holding my twins)...
 
Upon request, I called a co-worker over the VP using the VCO option. He answered, and I said:

"Hi Charlie, what can I do for you?"

(long pause)

"Is that you, Jim?"

"Yes, it is me. What's up?"

Hi, ummmmm..can you do that interpreter thingy so I can talk to you?"

"Charlie, I am using that "interpreter thingy" right now...."

"Oh, so there is an interpreter there right now?"

"Yes. What do you need?"

The interpreter looked like she was trying very hard not to laugh....

(Yes, I've explained and showed him how the VP works, but he just doesn't get it)....
 
CreatedNat said:
I have people asking me all the time, oh... did you give your daughter the deaf? the deaf? didn't know that was a thing.
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:roll:

Yeah, I've run into folks that thought deafness was a contagious disease. It is not just deafness....some parents refused to let their kids near my son when he was little for fear of contracting autism......
 
MintyOreo said:
Something similar happened to me yesterday. Yesterday, I went into the city for doctors appointments. After I was done with some of my doctors appointments, I decided to go to the mall for a few minutes before my next appointment, because I needed some ear cleaning solution stuff. (The stuff that you clean earrings with. I have VERY sensitive skin, and if I don't clean my earrings every day REALLY well, I get very bad infections. The formula that I use is sold at a specific store in the mall.) I had a notebook and a pen with me, so that I would be able to better communicate with hearing people. I went up to the store that sells the ear cleaning solution stuff. I walked up to the counter and handed the girl at the counter my notebook, which said something like "I'm deaf. Please write notes to me to communicate. Thank you!", and then I had written a note asking her for a bottle of the ear cleaning solution stuff, which is stored behind the counter, and how much it costs.

Now, it should have only taken a minute or two to buy what I needed and get out of the store. But nooooo. The girl looked stunned for a moment, then got a weird look on her face. She started trying to talk to me, but I couldn't understand what she was saying. I wrote her a note, again, asking her to please write notes to me because I can't hear. She then went and got another co-worker, who also was stunned and didn't seem to know how to react. The two girls talked about me for a few minutes, backs turned towards me. I only had a few minutes to get what I needed and out of the mall, because I had another appointment that I had to go to soon. So, I tapped the girls on the shoulder and wrote them a note telling them that I had to hurry, and that I needed to buy a bottle of the ear cleaning solution stuff. The girls got all attitude on me, and ignored me. (I think one of them told me to shut up, but I'm not sure.) I was getting impatient and I really had to hurry, so I went around to the other side of the counter and grabbed a bottle of the ear cleaning solution stuff myself - much to the girls' surprise. I saw the price tag said $8 (including tax), so I put the money on the counter and left.

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:laugh2: :laugh2:....The clerks were teens or very young....and when you wrote that you were Deaf...and wanted a "cleaning solution"....I assume they thought you needed something to clean out ur ears so you could "hear"!...:giggle:....and possible they thought you were pulling a "prank"??...People asss-uuu-mmm-ee a lot!
 
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