No, actually you brought it up in your first post. Here’s what you said:
“A little comon sense is needed on both sides.”
Then you went on to say:
“Suppose the clerk had greeted you instead of your wife, and it was you who was rude to the cleck by ignoring her.................”
Yes, suppose that was the case, how would you have suggested the guy with the crowbar deal with this incident?
Then you said:
“Unless the deaf hang a sign around their neck, some awkward moments are sure to occur.”
So that’s it? Deaf people will just have to expect getting their head bashed in occasionally by idiots who have a chip on their shoulder and don’t want to be dissed?
What’s your common sense suggestion for deaf people who might be put into situations like this? I’d really like to know.
The more I read this story, the madder I get.
“The cashier tried to speak to him but got angry when Goodnight didn’t respond, Goodnight told police. The cashier threw Goodnight’s change at him, scattering it on the floor.
As Goodnight picked it up, the cashier hit him in the side of the head with the crowbar, Goodnight said.”
So not only did Goodnight suffer the indignity of having his money thrown in his face and having to pick it up off the floor, he also gets creamed in the head with a crowbar. This poor fella must have thought the whole world had gone crazy.
The guy in post 24 infered that he wanted to do a whole lot more than just inform the cleck of her error. "she turned all shades of red and apologized. Wanting to display more dignity than that little tart ever could, I walked away"
She had already shown her embarassment at her mistake by 'turning all shades of red'. What more should she have done? Go over and apologize? Maybe, but doing that would have called even more attendtion to what was already a mistake in the eyes of #24. I can just hear it now "For Petes sake, that $^%*(*& clerk not only treated my wife rudely, but THEN, in front of the whole store blew it up into a big deal"
If anyone needed to be concerned about a crowbar to the head, based on the account, it would be the clerk, not the deaf lady.
What’s your common sense suggestion for deaf people who might be put into situations like this? I’d really like to know.
Based on the account of #24, nothing different. #24 might want to re-evaluate HIS reaction though.
BTWYou still haven't even acknowledged that the clerks reaction might be quite normal in the case of a hearing, but rude customer.