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Today i went shopping. While on the street I was accosted by a Mormon. I did the "oh i'm deaf and can't undy you" act, that i will do when i don't want to deal with someone. Then two seconds later, i got accosted by a deaf peddler! LOL (and i think he was really deaf, since he did have some knowledge of sign. then again my voice is horrible and he seemed to undy me)
 
Two years ago I was in New York visiting my grandparents and met a deaf peddler. He gave me the fingerspelling chart that said he was deaf and asked for money. I tried to talk with him, but he didn't reply and just walked away fast. Today I still wonder if he was deaf or scammer.

I had the people come to our apartment about religion. I just said I couldn't understand and then my roommate argued with them for 30 minutes! :laugh2:
 
That happened to me too. When I was a teenager I was with my friends at the mall and a "deaf" peddler came up to us with the fingerspelling chart and asked for money. When I started signing to him his face turned bright red and he walked away fast.

Don't those people realize that there are many people who know how to sign and they are probably going to get caught?:ugh3:
 
I haven't seen a deaf peddler selling the fingerspelling alphabet cards since I was a child, and that was a LONG time ago. When I was 7 or 8, there was a deaf gentleman who would supplement his income by selling these cards. My parents had owned a deli, and he would come in every so often. I do know, however, that he was actually deaf, and was married with a deaf wife and 3 children, 2 of whom were deaf.

The scammers need to be prosecuted. The selling of these alphabet cards is a very real part of Deaf history. It is a testiment to the resilience of the deaf and to their collective determination to be self supporting and independent despite the barriers that have been placed in their way by hearing society.
 
Yeah, I remember many years ago when I have met some of the "deaf wanna be" peddlers and one real Deaf peddler in Minneapolis, Minnesota while I am attending school. Some of the "deaf" peddlers look like scammers. But years later I met the real Deaf peddler that knows how to sign very well. He have a deaf wife and a baby. Now I don't see any deaf or "deaf wanna be" peddlers any more. I have a feeling there is still some deaf or "deaf wanna be" peddlers somewhere lurking in United States or Canada. When they see you sign, they have a right to be embarass themselves red and know that they don't the sign at all, that is why they are running away from you as fast as their feet went zip. :giggle:
 
My grammer is getting to be pretty bad. I have to start getting my sentences in orders as it is not "am", It is "was" as past tense and not "have", It is "had" which mean in the past tense. Oops, Sorry about my grammer. I must be getting old and tire. :confused:
 
I haven't seen a deaf peddler selling the fingerspelling alphabet cards since I was a child, and that was a LONG time ago.
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well this was in nyc.
 
deafdyke said:
well this was in nyc.
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I didn't mean to imply that they didn't still exist....just that I had not seen one on many years. But then, it has been many years since I was in NYC, too! LOL.
 
Ive never met one of the 'deaf' peddlers, but of course I live in a very rural area where peddling is useless as most people would probably hand them an application for the chicken plants, :giggle:
 
Dixie said:
I live in a very rural area where peddling is useless as most people would probably hand them an application for the chicken plants, :giggle:
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Dixie, I've heard that y'all have things very different in the southeast than we have them here in the northwest. For one thing, here our chickens hatch from eggs (kind of roundish things, very fragile); they don't grow on plants.

But I saw you're telling the truth when I looked in the picture dictionary and saw a real eggplant. Never too old to learn, I guess.
 
I was in hearing bowling league years ago in Chicago area. Those bowlers from few lanes down were looking at me. I didn't understand why until the deaf peddler came to me and shown me the fingerspell card and asked for money. I signed and voiced to him why? He wasn't really embrassed because I know ASL. Well he said he had a hard time finding job and needs to support his wife and children. I explained that my father has hired a few deaf people for his company and that my father can help him. Then he went on and explained he can't cuz his back is hurting him badly and some BS excuses. I told him that he's walking fine and I don't see any excuses that he can't work. Then he walked out of bowling alley real fast. haha. Those bowlers and my teammates were surprised that I don't give sh*t about "poor me" cuz they know at that time that I worked one full time job and part time job.
 
You go girl!

Chase, you goofball! We also have chicken houses where the chickens are not broiler chickens (to be processed) but rather, hatcher houses where the chickens do nothing but lay eggs for one year in which they get an all expenses paid trip to the slaughter house and ground up into premium blend Eukanuba.

And yes I have seen an egg hatched without its shell - very weird!
 
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