Deaf people teach us how to flirt.

No they don't.

They answer questions about how people flirt with them, and we're not taught anything about flirting. Still, it's fun. And instructive otherwise.

I've seen it in action, flirtation between hearing and deaf. It's even easier now with cellphones and texting. At the time, when we went out, the deaf kept a small tablet and pen, and people approached them from all angles. Especially Jeff, but others as well. After a party at my house I'd have to go around and clean up and pick up the all the little pieces of tablet paper that showed flirting. Yes, I read them. What the heck, if they were signed, I'd see them. If spoken, I'd hear them. As it was, they left their crap all around for me to pick up.

"Would you like to go up to Breckenridge?"

"Who's driving?"

That sort of thing.

And I saw for myself that people actually did learn sign language just so they could talk to Jeff. The first guy in this video with strawberry hair and wearing a blue and white t-shirt reminds me of Jeff, they look alike in a basic way. Jeff is blond though and looked like a surfer back then. Now he looks like a tough cowboy. Cowman, actually, he's no youngster, and no longer anything cute about him. And better dressed. Now he's a lot more rough.

I'm surprised this video has 4,056,00 views on YouTube with 4,800 comments. I'm not done reading them, but here is my favorite comment so far.

I learned sign language just to ask a girl out who I worked with. She's hot as f but everyone was intimidated to ask her or even joke around her. Im a solid 6 maybe a 7, but I said f it after learning basics I approached her, "look I think your gorgeous, I learned sign language so I could ask you out and you clearly are impressed. So we'll go out this weekend right?". 

Not the prettiest line but the tutor I had for signing showed me how to sign it to her. She blushed and actually smiled and gave me a hug. She's been with me ever since (years now) He shoots he scores.

I listened to and watched the portion of the heavyset man wearing a loose black shirt six times, and saw the man spell "slutty" while hearing the woman say "floody." The recording is not that hi-res. Then finally on the seventh time I heard the woman say "slutty."

*schedules appointment for hearing test.*

The black woman with red hair signs, "One. Tap on shoulder. Hey there." Is interpreted, "The first thing you wanna do is make sure you tap them." And so it goes throughout the whole thing. If you are looking for English within the signing, it's not there. What you see instead is closer to a wordless movie.

It's a very instructive video, but not about flirting.