Angry Deaf Man

I drove up to a parking attendant prior to entering a parking lot. I had a hearing passenger. When the parking attendant showed that she wasn’t particularly expressive with her hands, I directed her to speak with my hearing passenger. I did not want to hold up the line into the parking lot. It’s OK [...]

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I hate it when… if I’m with someone, and I go up to, say, a store counter, and try to communicate with the clerk standing on the other side of the counter. Familiar with the scenario? Happens all the time, right? Well, because I’m deaf, the clerk is caught off-guard. Understandably.
Here’s the killer: because I’m [...]

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