Vote On Me, Please!
November 05,
2008
2008
SITUATION 1:
When the deaf person is ordering for a meal, it depends on how old the cashier/waiter is.. Young hearing people could understand faster but sometimes confused. Older hearing people are much slower in understanding. For example, if there are no menu on the counter desk or table, the deaf person have to give out some hand gesture (yet it's non-official sign language) to tell the cashier what they want to order. it often happens when I go to KFC or McDonald restaurant. Sometimes they give wrong meal to me..... -___-
SITUATION 2:
When the deaf person is in a lounge or a cafe or a public space, the hearing people would be curious. Haha, does it sound weird to you? But that is how they talked. In my college time, there was no enough space which caused my deaf friend and me have to sit between a hearing friend. We chatted and suddenly my hearing friend laughed. We become puzzled and he told us he never seen the sign language before. We also laughed because we knew the sign language is something that people don't see so easily in public.