Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Talking cat

My cat doesn't speak, she uses sign language:


In this case she was saying "Pappy, what is that dog doing in my bed?"

Which reminds me - I went to YouTube and looked for how to sign "I can't hear you" just because I have to start somewhere. I point to myself, then to my ears then to whomever is trying to speak to me, but people mistake my waving and gesturing as gang signs or rudeness. C'est la vie, right?

13 comments:

Chip Ahoy said...

I think pointing to one of your ears and shaking your head "no" will do it very nicely.

deborah said...

There's someone sleeping in my bed, and he's still there!

I just cup my ear to signal I can't hear what someone said.

The Dude said...

I think that is a good suggestion, Chip, as if I started using sign language and only had one phrase then that would be awkward. Which reminds me of a guy I met who while preparing for a trip to Germany learned how to say "All I can say in German is all I can say in German". Kind of a quick way to wrap up a conversation.

I do cup my ears, say that I am hard of hearing, but people either don't pay attention or don't want to communicate. I will be attending a party soon and I remember the last time I joined this particular group I kept telling this one guy that I couldn't understand what he was muttering, er saying (kids these days) and he not only didn't speak up he kept turning away from me so I couldn't even read his lips. Fine, that's the way you want this to go? Swell. See if I sell you any more furniture in the future, bub!

So I am already getting nervous about a situation that might not even happen. There is a reason I avoid parties - too much background noise and I end up like that dog - curled up on a sofa.

MamaM said...

I think pointing to one of your ears and shaking your head "no" will do it very nicely.

If it doesn't look first appear as though you're about to shoot yourself for being a goomba.

Context is everything.

Chip Ahoy said...

Have you noticed how many shows on Netflix the male lead whisper-talks all their lines?

How can you be lead when you don't even speak full voiced?

It drives me nuts. Like Batman, and Arrow, and Sherlock.

edutcher said...

To be fair, Dirty Harry did the same thing.

PS Quasy dog was like the cat, but she went one better. Once she's gotten your attention, all you had to do was say, "OK, show me what you want", and she'd lead you to it.

Wa-wa, doggie food, treat (even if that wasn't first on the list), outside, beddy-byes.

She was a very smart dog.

Dad Bones said...

I can relate to your hearing difficulties in crowds and parties, SG. I have the same problem. My hearing aids aren't much help but they have helped me hear the songs of certain birds I'd been missing. If nothing else it's proper punishment for whatever impatience I exhibited to my mother with her hearing difficulties. Guns and loud music are sometimes blamed but she was exposed to neither.

The Dude said...

I tell that same story - my mother went deaf and to the best of my knowledge she never operated a chainsaw. Who knows, tho...

Rabel said...

In honor of Sixty Grit a buddy and me cut down and cut up a tree in my back yard today. About 8 inches diameter, maybe 10 at the base. They're always bigger and heavier than they look and with my limited arboreal tool set and tight spacing it was a bit of a challenge.

However, it fell right straight down into the limited gap we had to work with. Winning.

I AM KING OF THE LUMBERJACKS!!!!

On the other hand, I may not be able to get out of bed in the morning.

deborah said...

Damn, Sixty, just listened to the Mingus...a whole new world.

The Dude said...

Charlie Mingus was something else - that awesome recording was made by a tribute group years after Mingus himself died. I grew up listening to Mingus and a number of other jazz greats like Coltrane and Miles Davis on the Felix Grant radio show broadcast on WMAL, radio 63. Mr. Grant had a deep and abiding love of jazz and that came through loud and clear on his show.

Even though that is a mess of youngsters playing on that record it is still a mind-blowing recording. Play it loud!

deborah said...

Will do.

MamaM said...

Over on the millennial post, I was about to tell a story of a young friend of the family who'd recently announced he was hosting a "tree cutting party" in order to take down a tree that stood two and a half times the height of his recently purchased home. In prep for the party, word came down the line that he'd readied himself by going to the hardware and buying a carpenters saw and some rope to tie around it to "guide it down" so it would miss the house. All of which made me wonder if his previous experience with tree cutting might have involved a live Christmas tree. Thankfully his dad got wind of the plan before anything more amiss happened, and brought a chainsaw to the event which turned out to be more work than party except for the celebration of getting a large tree safely landed.