What is your weirdest (or most difficult) experience of communicating with another person?

[etalns]

For me it would have to be working at a charity last year with mute children. Considering I don't know sign language, I found it pretty difficult to communicate with them at first.

Eventually we devised a hybrid system of pictionary, and body language hot/cold!

I imagine this thread won't get serious responses. But I decideed I'd put it out there anyways.

 

[Bozono]

People you've known who've suffered a debilitating stroke with them losing their speech can be tough.

 

[DarkKnight69]

a guy who could not pronouce vegetables.

He kept saying veg tables. WE DONT SELL UR FVCKED UP TABLES!!!

 

[BriGy86]

trying to explain what the difference between a CD-R and a CD-RW is to a customer

 

[Green84061]

Having a Saudi Arabian exchange student living with us after only being in the US for 3 months and before that knew no english. That being said hes doing pretty dang good.

Actually now that I read post 2 I might have to say my grandfather that had a really bad stroke.

 

[PingSpike]

This morning, trying to get a user to go to the address bar in internet explorer. I wanted to hit myself in the head with the phone until I was unconcious.

 

[kevinthenerd]

mentally handicapped customers at Walgreens who smelled so bad that I started losing my ability to think enough to speak

 

[aidanjm]

attempting to communicate with heterosexual males.

 

[Bozono]

Originally posted by: aidanjm
attempting to communicatew with heterosexual males.

You know, I'm actually glad you're gay. Makes the future more tolerable.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: Bozono

Originally posted by: aidanjm
attempting to communicatew with heterosexual males.

You know, I'm actually glad you're gay. Makes the future more tolerable.

I plan to have many, many children.

 

[HBalzer]

Originally posted by: aidanjm
attempting to communicate with heterosexual males.

Gays always have to put in their plug!

 

[joincamp]

any thread here on ATOT possibly?

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: Green84061
Having a Saudi Arabian exchange student living with us after only being in the US for 3 months and before that knew no english. That being said hes doing pretty dang good.

Well, he has a great instructor! :laugh:

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Green84061
Having a Saudi Arabian exchange student living with us after only being in the US for 3 months and before that knew no english. That being said hes doing pretty dang good.

Actually now that I read post 2 I might have to say my grandfather that had a really bad stroke.

put him in front of the tv for awhile...

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

i was dating this chick once.... we had been seeing each other about every other day for about 2 weeks. one night, i overheard a message from another guy on her machine, and she seemed to be embarrassed about it. So I told her that I wasn't concerned about it since we had only been seeing each other for such a short period and didn't consider it a monogamous relationship at that point.

Over the next 6 hours, I was given the silent treatment, threatened, seduced, and eventually attacked with a butcher knife. I escaped eventually in one peice. The key to the her psychotic fit was my mentioning that I thought it was okay if we dated other people.

boy did I learn a lot that night...

 

[purbeast0]

its gonna be hard for me to communicate w/my GF's family when I go to Nicaragua w/her in 2 weeks. I know a little bit of spanish, and can understand it much better than I can speak it, but its still going to be very awkward for me at first in Nicaragua. I hve never been to a country where English is not spoken everywhere.

 

[Mr N8]

I work in a home for adults with mental disabilities. There are struggles to communicate every day.

 

[Lola]

Customers with the thickest accents i have ever heard talking on a static-ey cell phone trying to understand their insurance coverages.

I am pretty good with dialiects, but sometimes i have no clue what they are saying

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: aidanjm
attempting to communicate with heterosexual males.

If you'd quit with the damned lisp we might be able to understand you a little better, Thweetheart.

- M4H

 

[batmang]

my grandpa after he had a stroke.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: aidanjm
attempting to communicate with heterosexual males.

If you'd quit with the damned lisp we might be able to understand you a little better, Thweetheart.

- M4H

lol. but you're not very communicative, are you?

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: batmang
my grandpa after he had a stroke.

god, that happened to my grandmother. so freaky, & wierd trying to talk with someone who appears to understand you but has lost the ability to talk themselves. and unbelievably sad and depressing, too.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: aidanjm
attempting to communicate with heterosexual males.

If you'd quit with the damned lisp we might be able to understand you a little better, Thweetheart.

- M4H

lol. but you're not very communicative, are you?

Why are you so eager to communicate with a

fearful, stunted, grotesque individual

anyways, troll? :roll:

- M4H

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: aidanjm
attempting to communicate with heterosexual males.

If you'd quit with the damned lisp we might be able to understand you a little better, Thweetheart.

- M4H

lol. but you're not very communicative, are you?

Why are you so eager to communicate with a

fearful, stunted, grotesque individual

anyways, troll? :roll:

- M4H

I am here to help.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: aidanjm
attempting to communicate with heterosexual males.

If you'd quit with the damned lisp we might be able to understand you a little better, Thweetheart.

- M4H

lol. but you're not very communicative, are you?

Why are you so eager to communicate with a

fearful, stunted, grotesque individual

anyways, troll? :roll:

- M4H

I am here to troll.

- M4H