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

ElizaAnne 7

Monday 11 March 2013 16:17

Did she then catch you hearing.... and because you felt terrible give her tickets to a rock concert?

MoonChild5 11

Monday 11 March 2013 16:39

I have social anxiety too, but even I would have just said, "Sure." and went on with my day.

kawaiisakura 12

Monday 11 March 2013 18:02

I don't see much good in faking being deaf. I pretend that I didn't hear them and try my best to ignore them, but I also try to show with my body language that I don't want to talk

Obey_StudBoii 23

Monday 11 March 2013 19:30

It's not that hard to nod your head or say no.

darkmis1 17

Monday 11 March 2013 19:46

Say yes, but only if they're willing to talk about your lord and savior, the devil. That should send her away.

BurumaB 2

Monday 11 March 2013 20:28

you should have gone full retard.

DarkskyFML 5

Wednesday 13 March 2013 6:45

You NEVER go full retard...

vbmg152 18

Monday 11 March 2013 21:10

My 23 yr old son has severe social anxiety but, he'd never act like that! He has manners, that's just rude! My kid would die of thirst in the desert before he'd talk to a stranger but if someone talks to him, he answers politely! In fact, he just got his first job!

Sir_Swaggington 6

Monday 11 March 2013 21:16

At first I clicked FYL because OP said he has "social issues." But if he can act deaf, he can nod or shake his head when someone asks a question. YDI.

PureEvil666 3

Monday 11 March 2013 22:54

Can't blame the guy. We all do weird things sometimes

rockydify 22

Monday 11 March 2013 23:26

Sounds like a tough situation - I hate sitting next to a person who wants a conversation. I have also pretended to be deaf one time (well, not explicitly - I just never made eye contact and when they talked to me I didn't look around at them - they may have assumed I was deaf). The lady sure was rude for trying to carry on a conversation with someone who clearly didn't want to talk. Some of these extroverts have no social skills at all. Oh and to everyone calling the OP 'him' ... look at the gender tags please.