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By human lava lamp - 10/03/2013 19:54 - United States - New Britain

Today, I was at the airport, when a lady came up and loudly asked if she could sit next to me. I have serious social issues, so to avoid having to talk to her, I pretended I was deaf and couldn't hear her. She immediately broke out her sign language skills. FML
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BoobsAreAmazing 7

You could have just nodded/shook your head.

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PipingMouse 14

Or you could have done an interpretive dance.

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lexa1love 16

I would have just smiled, nodded and patted the seat next to me. That way you don't have to talk, and it doesn't seem like you were being rude. :)

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PipingMouse 14

You need to work those "social" issues out, OP. It makes you sound like an douche-canoe.

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AssTard 15

15- Easier said than done, especially from a spectator's point of view.

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brent321 10

Hahahahahahahahahah that sucks dude, in this particular instance i would not appreciate the condiment of the other intellectual whose view points out stand the typical intelligent average.

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DocBastard 38

And this, boys and girls, is what it looks like when you comment immediately after smoking dried rhinoceros shit.

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gracehi 31

^ Looks like a coke bottle trapped in someone's pelvis to me, Doc. Ooooh, you meant the blithering idiot your replied to. My bad.

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gracehi 31

*you replied to. **** you, phone, making me look like an intolerable hypocrite.

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Rangant 7

Well I'm sure a flight full of people with no possible means of escape incase something like this happens again onboard will help your serious social issues.

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80sgurl 15

You should've just nodded, or just have said "sure".

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PipingMouse 14

Saying "sure" after she broke out in sign language would have seemed a little weird dont you think?

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AnyaS 19

18 said should HAVE... meaning to do those things in place of pretending to be deaf and using "sign language".

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WrongRomance 11

Pretend to be blind, if it's believable at that point.

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kishorekumar_a 10

No 62, it will be done by spreading out OP's magical senses.

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Nikkitaria 9

As someone who had to struggle with social anxiety, it sounds way more complicated to pretend being deaf than to simply nod. Either way, you need to deal with your situation. The faster the better.

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gracehi 31

Next time, pretend to have the plague. No one will sit next to you then. Or maybe you should stop showering. That's a great way to get people to avoid you.

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Ameel_fml 19

Wouldn't pretending to be deaf be MORE socially awkward than just answering 'yes' or 'no'? I'm extremely socially awkward and the thought of faking a disability seems incredibly embarrassing (not to mention, douchey) to me.

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CharresBarkrey 15

I too have social anxiety and I would be way too scared to fake a disability. That just focuses more attention on you, which is exactly what people with social phobia try to avoid.

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perdix 29

Pretend you only know Hebrew Sign Language which is read from right-to-left, so you don't understand. That'd take some chutzpah!

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