In another post, Gamo had a good idea for us all: Tell more stories. Here’s my favorite funny deaf experience in the hearing world. Maybe others may comment or add their own tale.

This happened three times in the last few years. The look on each person’s face was exactly the same, so I’ll tell the best one.

I’d pulled over at a fresh highway crash as required by law, took out my first aid bag, and reported to the highway patrol officer in charge, letting her know I was deaf but a certified first responder. Grateful, she sent me to help some bleeders. Meanwhile county deputies arrived. One came up behind me, telling me to move and let him take over. Of course, I went right on elevating extremities and bandaging. I later learned he repeated his intent to relieve me louder and louder. At last the deputy grabbed my shoulder, spun me around, and shouted in my face, “Are you deaf?!?!”

I nodded both my head and my hand, deaf sign for "yes." About that time the highway patrolwoman came over to us, saying, “He’s a deaf EMT. Let him work, will ya?”

All of our factual answers to the rhetoric sarcastic question he had asked were lost on the red-faced deputy, as he stood like a deer caught in headlights, unable to move a muscle.