Miscellaneous: Today, I was in an elevator with my brother and a woman. He signs...

By elevator-troubles - 18/03/2009 07:59 - Australia

Today, I was in an elevator with my brother and a woman. He signs to me that she has a 'damn fine ass'. I chuckle and then shake my head. He shrugs. A second later the woman signs to us, 'Rick, don't you remember me?' Turns out she helped teach my brother sign language when he was six. FML

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You deserved it 25 888

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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

I agree, your life sucks 30 214

You deserved it 1 540

By TappedAnts - 08/04/2016 01:45 - United States - Seabrook

Today, I went to a family reunion with my brother and my mother. She spent quite a while giving a glowing introduction for my brother to one of her cousins. Then, just before walking off, she jerked a thumb in my direction and said, "Oh, yeah, and that's his sister." FML

I agree, your life sucks 19 091

You deserved it 1 350

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

I agree, your life sucks 50 249

You deserved it 13 211

By SadAndDeaf - 02/09/2014 23:38

Today, my sister introduced me to her new, deaf boyfriend. She proudly proclaimed that she was trying to learn sign language for his sake, so he wouldn't have to read her lips. I'm also deaf and have been trying to get her to do the same for me for 20 goddamn years. FML

I agree, your life sucks 56 748

You deserved it 3 133

By kggggg - 12/08/2010 11:00 - United States

Today, while at my friend's house, I noticed her brother had a bit of an accent. I laughingly said "Is it me or does your little brother have an accent?" She stared and replied with "No, he has autism." FML

I agree, your life sucks 16 788

You deserved it 47 394

Egg IRL

By Anonymous - 16/11/2020 05:01 - United States

Today, I was eating out with my family. I have 2 brothers. Our waitress comes and says, "Look at those 3 handsome young men." I didn't think of it until my 5-year-old brother shouted, " She's a girl!'" FML

I agree, your life sucks 889

You deserved it 101

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

I agree, your life sucks 16 377

You deserved it 49 726

Mixed signals

By max - 07/02/2009 23:33 - United States

Today, I thought I was going on a date. About 20 minutes into it, after giving her my arm to hold (like a true gentleman) it came up in conversation that my brother is gay. Her response: "Oh, so both you and your brother are gay?" FML

I agree, your life sucks 40 431

You deserved it 2 984

Denied

By uglyswimmer - 23/04/2009 01:58 - United States

Today, I was talking to a swimmer I just met. I saw a cute guy and whispered to her, "That guy is hot." She asked "Who?" I pointed at him. She turned to see him, then turned back to me and said "Ew, that's my brother." She went to him, whispered something. He turned around to see me and said, "EW." FML

I agree, your life sucks 57 650

You deserved it 7 752

Hot stuff

By Liam. - 01/02/2010 05:15 - France

Today, I was in an elevator, and the hot girl who lives in my building and who I have a crush on got in. She was in a wheelchair with a broken leg, I panicked and tried to flirt with her, and I said, "Nice chair." She replied, "Nice bruise" and punched me in the nuts. FML

I agree, your life sucks 14 653

You deserved it 51 987

Blanche_fml 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 20:03

more of an fhl your brother just said his sign language teacher had a nice ass.

mdmd136 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 20:03

AWKWARD

Comments

Misanthropist 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 20:38

Agreed with #13.. I think someone is just inventing different ways to share the same basic FML.

Tihihi1 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 20:39

not really oyur fml, but still hilarious. how old is your brother? and How old is she? cuz im picturing 20 guy and like, 65 year old woman:P lol, still funny

Triceratops4Lif 7

Wednesday 18 March 2009 20:42

That's pretty cool actually. Small world huh?

detonator0072003 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 20:43

What are the chances??? What a small world...

fmlplz 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 20:46

I would have started screaming on the elevator. Just for fun. They can't hear it.

twilightluvr101 4

Monday 5 March 2012 5:04

U sir are a ass!

Amanyyyyyy 29

Wednesday 21 May 2014 19:47

Just because they know Sign Language doesn't always necessarily mean they're Deaf... My brother is taking Sign Language in high school for fun and since I'm majoring in it, sometimes we communicate in sign, either for fun, to help him, or even just to have a private conversation. So screaming in an elevator may just be a way to get your ass kicked for being annoying and ignorant :P

madalynk 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 20:47

FML or not, that's hilarious and just made my day.

Inoku 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 21:04

#16: It could be a girl around the brother's age who was a fluent speaker of ASL when she was little. ASL is the native language of a lot of deaf people. I'm not sure whether that would make it more or less awkward though.

hurr 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 21:09

#13 it was actually one for Chinese and another for Swedish... but yeah, all in the last few days. Weak. "Today, I was doing X when I said OFFENSIVE-STATEMENT in some-non-English language. Then the target of OFFENSIVE-STATEMENT turned around and made me look a fool by responding in said some-non-English language. FML." Not even a good template, to be honest.

Bear_fml 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 21:12

Hmm. I wonder how she took it =D Maybe he scored with his sign language teacher? haha

digitalangel 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 22:08

I honestly think his brother deserved it. Too many people like to talk in a different language purposefully or knowingly excluding everyone else from the conversation to feel superior. When they say comments like this, they get what they deserved for being smug jerks.

delfino1604 24

Sunday 28 August 2011 5:25

you really ARE a moron aren't youuuuu ;D

dragonstrike94 8

Wednesday 16 November 2011 4:22

I do it for privacy

lexa1love 16

Sunday 19 August 2012 5:19

It is slightly different for hearing people to speak 2 different languages. Ya, ok they don't want you to understand what they are saying. Deaf people don't often communicate any other way so it really isn't even intentionally.