Alternative: Read My Lips

For the first time in my entire life, learning sign language paid off. I’m watching the kids, and one of Adriana’s Dad’s friends son, who is 11 - and I ordered pizza, because between him and Adriana they couldn’t agree on what they wanted for lunch, until I mentioned pizza - of course they were all for that! ANYWAY, when the pizza got here, I was trying to talk to her and realized she wasn’t responding to my questions and she smiled and said ‘I’m deaf’ - so I smiled back and told her one minute. Put the baby down, and told her in sign that the price was supposed to be on a credit card. The look on her face was of total shock, and I’m not sure why. But she signed back that she was surprised I could sign, because no one seems to be able to. And I smiled, we figured the mess out with the credit card, and Adriana’s dad just paid in cash, and she left.

It’s weird because when I learned sign language (and braille for that matter!) I didn’t think I would ever actually have a reason to know it. I just learned it because I was interested in the fact that there was a way to speak without words - without speech. (Other then writing of course.) I was a kid when I taught the basic words to myself (and really I’ve let what I know slip because I don’t really know much now, just common words). I’m not sure what the point of this is, but to say that I’m surprised that it came in handy, and I’m glad that it did :)

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