Anxiety, Awkward and Miscellaneous: Foiled

Foiled

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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By WOWBear - 05/06/2013 09:46 - United States - Mesa

Today, a deaf customer came to my work. In an attempt to connect with him I introduced myself in sign language. He just rolled his eyes and pointed at my name tag. FML

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Desperate times, desperate, dumb measures

By WTFiswrongwithme - 03/03/2020 00:01

Today, I was so desperate for human interaction that I asked a deaf girl in my class if she liked music. I actually signed it to her. FML

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By Come on - 29/01/2012 00:46 - United States

Today, I was sitting on a bus. I'm deaf. An old lady looked very angry at me and started talking. Then she looked like she was screaming. I had to type on my phone that I'm deaf. Apparently, I'd been stepping on her foot. She decided to poke me in the eye and type, "Now you're blind too." FML

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By Anonymous - 04/03/2013 14:23 - Taiwan - Taipei

Today, while on a crowded public bus, a cute girl asked if she could sit next to me. Problem is, I didn't hear correctly and thought she asked if anyone was sitting next to me. I answered no, causing her to walk off angrily and earning me several disgusted stares from other passengers. FML

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By Anonymous - 05/10/2013 06:56 - United States - Seattle

Today, I pretended to be deaf to a door to door salesman. He knew sign language. FML

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By Anonymous - 31/07/2009 17:01 - United States

Today, I was sitting on the train when some crazy man started talking to me. I ignored him, and he tapped on my shoulder. He started blabbing and I just pointed to my ears and mouthed, "I'm deaf." He stopped talking. A minute later my phone rang and I answered it without thinking. FML

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Sign this!

By Stairs? Noooooo - 15/09/2015 22:31 - United States - San Leandro

Today, I was signing with my deaf brother at a local McDonald's. We were having a laugh about a game we played last night when this morbidly obese woman waddled over to us. She was utterly convinced we were "talking shit" about her and made a scene about our "hand gestures." Seriously? FML

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By Cob - 03/02/2009 13:03 - United States

Today, I tried helping an old lady with her groceries. When I asked if she needed help she smiled. When I took one of her bags she yelled. I didn't know she was deaf. FML

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I am the passenger…

By northernlass - 01/10/2010 14:32 - United States

Today, I boarded a trans-Atlantic flight by myself, and struck up a nice conversation with the passenger across the aisle. Before we even took off, the man in front of me unbuckled, stood to face me, and asked me to please shut the hell up. "It's a 9 hour flight, and you're VERY loud!" FML

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By PlaneGuy - 25/02/2017 01:00 - Reunion - Saint-denis

Today, I was on a plane and a cute girl was getting ready to sit down beside me, but upon making eye contact, she asked to switch seats. FML

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Monday 11 March 2013 3:04

You could have just nodded/shook your head.

PipingMouse 14

Monday 11 March 2013 3:20

Or you could have done an interpretive dance.

Comments

pacmanman 15

Monday 11 March 2013 4:22

Wow... Isn't it funny that the one time you try to do something like that it backfires!...i understand. FYL OP

xmaximusx 12

Monday 11 March 2013 4:28

Take some medication and relax

rnett08 5

Monday 11 March 2013 4:36

Go all Happy Gilmore nursing home guy on her! "Can i trouble you for a glass of warm milk?" "You can trouble me for a glass of shut the hell up! Look grandma your in my world now"

MangaManiacNat 13

Monday 11 March 2013 5:48

I have the same issues to be fair man, next time just smile and gesture towards the seat with an open palm, works like a charm and it will slowly help build confidence =) Hope you start to feel more confident in public mate =)

xgetxbentx 13

Monday 11 March 2013 7:12

Why not just use your body language? You could nod, shake your head no, or even just point to the seat with an open palm to signal whether or not it was okay. Just because she wanted to sit there doesn't mean you would have had to socialize either. Either way, if you're that socially awkward, you need to invest in some head phones to wear at all times or something.

helpfulperson 9

Monday 11 March 2013 7:16

I pray that you had the decency to accept defeat at that point, and just nod.

SuperDanielNL 23

Monday 11 March 2013 7:25

That's why you never lie, besides all of these social anxiety issue seem a bit over the top. Sure some people are a bit odd or have trouble making contact but just giving everyone meds seems wrong. Besides forming a good social circle helps a great deal when building up confidence.

shannonshann06 6

Monday 11 March 2013 7:32

I have had it happen to me too! at that point I sign with them randomly til they go away!

SuperDanielNL 23

Monday 11 March 2013 7:44

If you really don't want to talk to folks, bring a bunch of jehova's witness folders and place them on your lap, or stop showering, smell tends to put people off.