I would have explained it had nothing to do with her, and that since your brother is deaf ASL is the only way he communicates. If she still makes a stink, get the manager and tell them you are being harassed. That woman is obviously extremely insecure, but that's no reason she should get away with harassing people like that.

What a cow. I hope you gave her the finger. I bet she'd understand that!

Yes, Poster, 'seriously'. It is consistent with this unfortunate person's evident infirmities of mind and body that when engaging with new people, assault may be the best she can do. I have known the victims of multiple handicaps (including obesity, chain-smoking, narcolepsy, learning difficulties, and Tourette's) who had to spend many hard years overcoming hair-trigger aggressivity and acquiring just the essential social skills. It is so hard because the world is covertly as hostile to people like this lady -but all day, every day- as she was with you. I do not know which generation of the Deaf your brother represents, but the ones I worked with in the days just before the spread of the Internet were a sorely frustrated lot, doubly cut off as they were from hearing society and from each other. Trebly cut off, if you consider how hard it was for them to access basic world knowledge -never mind education. Ask him, he will remember, or will have heard of it! Back in those dark days I witnessed many an incensed outburst like the one you had to endure in the restaurant. We are all struggling with something that might happen to make us impossible to be around -and thus all the more greatly challenged. Imagine living like that lady, for just five minutes. Picture yourself as her, in the bathroom, Gracious God! To love the unloveable, I have to concentrate on what we all are, when the dirty baggage is burned away. You love your brother and have learned his beautiful and intricate language; now can you manage some compassion for that diseased and estranged person? Society shuns warped bodies and unconventional abilities alike. She will live out this life alone, and proceed to the next long before most of us. Please don't be too offended.

I cracked up at the word "waddled". Anyway, ignore the ignorant people. It's the only way to live.

if you're that insecure about your weight perhaps don't go to McDonald's... or if you just need to shovel 2000 calories in your face do so in your car or take it home and eat in privacy. I'm not obese and if I'm having a period induced "must eat all the foods!" then I'll eat my gross amount of food at home watching Netflix in the dark. Nobody can make fun you real or imagined if there's nobody around.

some of my friends and I are learning sign language and to practice both signing and reading signs we'll go to restaurants and one of us will order and the rest of us will sign. we got a waitress once who thought we were mocking her and refused to serve us.

It amazes me every single day how people can get so offended so quick, about something that has nothing to do them. Fyl op.

UH... can you say self conscious ... seriously that lady needed to get some issues of her own worked out. Just because someone is talking whether verbally or with your hands its not always about you!!!!!

Sucks to be a hippo

ahahahahahahaha waddeled