I do this shit all the time, I'm sure you do it too

Reaper87xx · 5 months

It's kind of sad how often I actually do that.

gurnard · 5 months

Yep.

That or hear perfectly what they said, say "pardon?" anyway, then when they start repeating - cut them off with response to original comment!

learn_after_reading · 5 months

Happened to me just the day before.

She: <something laughing>

Me: Sorry?

She: <repeat with lesser laughter>

Me: Haha yeah.

She: ಠ_ಠ

I guess that wasn't the correct response.

SemperFry · 5 months

"Yes" is always the correct response. 60% of the time it works every time.

bwhite3604 · 5 months

Happens to me all the time, but then it turns out to be a non yes/no question, so further awkwardness ensues.

elegylegacy · 5 months

The equally awkward alternative is to ask her to repeat herself multiple times.

BaconWrappedEnigma · 5 months

The worst is when people say 'nevermind' and don't repeat themselves. FUCK YOU.

PurpleComet · 5 months

I did this once and next thing I knew I was on the Today Show in a puffy shirt.

TheDoktorIsIn · 5 months

I did this when I visited my gf's family in Italy. I was only just learning the language, so the conversation went like this:

Uncle: (something in Italian, I forget which)

Me: Scusi, parli italiano solo un po. ("I'm sorry, you only speak Italian a little)

Uncle: Hahaha! No, italiano sono la lingua di mio, parli italiano un po. (No, Italian is my language, YOU only speak Italian a little!)

Me: .... smile and nod

I still cringe.

anna652 · 5 months

Smile and wave boys, smile and wave

Deksloc · 5 months

I have to thank this meme, because this once happened to me, but it ended up working out. I was talking to this girl casually, and at some point she asked me a question, which I asked her to repeat, and then I nodded when she asked it again, while missing the cue to respond. She then lightly shoved me on my shoulder and giggled "You are being SUCH a socially awkward penguin!" We laughed it off and then started discussing something related to memes.

Today, we are still just flirting.

thearmadillo · 5 months

I'm sad that this is still making the frontpage. I think this might have been the original SAP.

madfatter · 5 months

I used to do this. But fuck it, not anymore. Just laugh it off when you don't hear it the second time she said it and lean in and look into her eyes as she repeats it again.

DuddlyDoWrong037 · 5 months

The situation that penguin is describing was once a slight annoyance among my relationship with my girlfriend. A crack in a wall. A chip of the statue. But what was once a timid annoyance has become an over whelming burden.

Nah just joking. I usually just call my girlfriend 'Mumbles' and tell her to speak up.

OffersNothing · 5 months

It's worse when you respond to what you thought was said.

endeden · 5 months

Usually when I ask them to repeat it and I don't hear it the second time, I explain why I couldn't hear it then ask them to repeat, that or make a joke out of it.

pixeled601 · 5 months

"Heard her, but had to make sure" happens a lot too

OldBreed4816 · 5 months

Story of my life! Screw you, short attention span!

IKILLPPLALOT · 5 months

I try doing this but every time I do it the thing she said ends up being a question and she just kinda stares at me in a funny way afterwards. Then after noticing her reaction I say "I'm sorry, what did you say?" In an awkward way.

Zeppelanoid · 5 months

ESPECIALLY at bars/concerts.

dolpsc · 5 months

wait... i get to talk to a girl?.... socially awesome!!!

baxterg13 · 5 months

I did that once. Turns out the guy was saying 'you don't really like me, do you?'

Havent talked since

ZiplockedHead · 5 months

I admit I do it too.

I'm not an american, and have only recently moved here, and I have a southern black friend who I can only understand about 20% of what he says :|

ihutch01 · 5 months

The thing is its also awkward if you keep asking what she said. SAP if you do, SAP if you don't

62midnight · 5 months

Almost every time I do this the person is asking me a question. That's why I was in Special Ed classes until I was 14.

A_hoovy · 5 months

"ARE YOU THIS PSYCHO SERIAL KILLER TERRORIST PEDOPHILE, RIGHT HERE, AT GUANTANAMO BAY!?"

"What?"

"ARE YOU THIS PSYCHO SERIAL KILLER TERRORIST PEDOPHILE, RIGHT HERE, AT GUANTANAMO BAY!?"

lancerevo98 · 5 months

http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/rorzq/sap_having_a_conversation_in_a_crowded_place/

Yup, i posted this last week. Fucking reedit and the way it works. Congrats.....bitch...

Lier_X_Agerate · 5 months

If you ask someone to repeat what they said and you still don't hear it, then you should do this. They aren't a parrot. Listen better.

colourfulkristy · 5 months

i just want to say, i would honestly RATHER a male to do this to me than just ask me to repeat myself three or so times. i hate raising my voice and i hate repeating myself. i feel as if its less offensive to just not ask me to repeat myself. short rage.

Peterpolusa · 5 months

If pretty much everyone in the world does this is it truly a socially awkward penguin? More of a socially normal penguin.

coolestguy1234 · 5 months

my grandmother does that. i feel bad for her because she cant hear at all unless you yell at her. she refuses to get a hearing aid. things usually go one of two ways. you yell at her and she gets mad that you are yelling at her or she just nods and smiles and has no idea what you said.

[deleted] · 5 months

The worse is when she said her name.

hank87 · 5 months

I did this to a girl I worked with over the summer. Except I asked her to repeat herself like 3 times. And then when I nodded, I realized by her face that she was asking me something that wasn't a yes or no question. I mumbled awkwardly and walked away.

In my defense, when you bring hundreds of kids to a water park for a field trip, shit gets loud.

SexybeastBEAR · 5 months

Even more awkward if what she did was ask a question and all you did is nod and smile back at her and she just stares blankly at you waiting for an answer...

FriendlyVisitor · 5 months

I do this a lot. But last time I did it, it turns out the guy was asking me a question. It was pretty awkward... me just standing there as if he didn't ask me anything.

SmartViking · 5 months

I don't do that. I continue to ask her to repeat it indefinitely, until I understand. People usually say "just forget it" after 3 times in an angry tone.

crimefighter · 5 months

"Excuse me sir, do you have the time?"

"Pardon?"

"What time is it?"

"Yes." /awkward laugh

freewowgoldandipods · 5 months

I usually ask "pardon?" twice, and then follow with "I still have no idea what you just said."

PalermoJohn · 5 months

I do this shit all the time, I'm sure you do it too

... her ...

nope

athorpedo · 5 months

Hahahah, yeah.

smellycooter · 5 months

you got her to repeat something? I usually get verbally murdered for this...

Whiteley79 · 5 months

I'm deaf in one ear, I do this for every conversation, ever.

MaximilianKohler · 5 months

oh god... the worst thing happened to me in the first few days in my new high school. I'm white and I was going to a MAJORITY black/hispanic school(I saw like 4 other white people maybe the entire time).

The hottest black girl in the school came up to me with a couple of her friends and said like 4 sentences maybe. I understood nothing... I asked her to repeat twice, which she did and I still understood nothing... I even looked over to her friends hoping they'd give me some explanation but they just stood there and didn't say anything.

I didn't know what to do so I just said "sure, ok" and walked away... I'm 95% sure she was asking me to hang out. For the rest of the school year people kept saying I didn't like black girls ._.

[deleted] · 5 months

Me: Pardon?

Other person: I said my cousin was just diagnosed with cancer.

Me: laughs and nods

I've made enough blunders not to carry on doing this. I'd rather just be annoying and ask them to repeat themselves as many times as it takes...

BlueElephants · 5 months

That's my face when I do it.

That_Guy_in_ur_Tree · 5 months

Take it from a pro...

don't smile and nod say something..

'oh, thats cool'

'wow moving on'

use her facial expressions to understand the tone...

Jonnybeans · 5 months

but then they wait for an asnwer....OH SHIT SHE ASKED A QUESTION.

ophello · 5 months

Oh man...yes...but usually, if I have to ask a third time, I say "ONE more time for the hearing impaired?"

Also, not sure why this meme is gender-specific. This happens with everyone.

canucklehead13 · 5 months

Or how about when you're with a group of people, someone says something funny (that you didn't hear), yet you laugh anyway?

pufferfish3 · 5 months

and then it turns out she's asking you an actual question.

LegendOfGannon · 5 months

Thinking about it I actually do this quite a bit

Lagwagonnofx813 · 5 months

"Ahhhh yeah, i gotcha"

Carosello · 5 months

This is why I refuse to apply for jobs that involve taking orders from strangers off the street. Me at Subway? It will never happen. I can't hear people sometimes and I hear things muffled/distorted on occasion. It suuuuucks so muuuuuuuuuchhh

Enzo42 · 5 months

Or if you are me, you pretend to laugh

PicksOutTheOneThing · 5 months

Shit all the time

ಠ_ಠ

yeahfuzzy · 5 months

Yes, but mostly because I can't understand the accents (I'm non-British living in Britain).

sullythered · 5 months

I do it too, but it's not socially awkward. It's just that I don't want to be all, SPEAK UP ASSHOLE, I CAN'T FUCKING HEAR YOU.

emotionalfluff · 5 months

Yeah, it's called being deaf.

lXaNaXl · 5 months

I do this to everyone. Biggest question in life, how many time do you repeat "what?" before u just nod and say, "yep".

its_over_2250 · 5 months

I've done this far more than I'd care to admit.

aRelavantUserName · 5 months

and then hear "you're not even listening to me."

NuclearNoonga · 5 months

As someone who was a hearing impairment, I do this way more than I should.

HybridCue · 5 months

I do this all the freaking time. Especially in bars.

mwingoyo · 5 months

turn whatever the last few words you caught into a question. "so...vomit and midterm cramming?"

Spade6179 · 5 months

This was the case for me sometimes when I traveled to France last year. xD

technostrich · 5 months

she's doing it to fuck with you. You definitely need to call her out on this. You'll earn her respect and kisses.

Heroshade · 5 months

"You can? Awesome! My boyfriend will really appreciate this."

false_statistics_guy · 5 months

More than 57% of the population aged 16-34 suffer from mild to severe form of social awkwardness. You are not alone, my friend.

MuSigma · 5 months

I do that all the time! and then it turns out to be a question...

MuSigma · 5 months

I do that all the time, and then it turns out to be a question...

PowerRainbows · 5 months

all the time, and it has caused some very awkward situations

heatedundercarriage · 5 months

If you're half deaf and trying to hit on a girl at a club, you're going to have a bad time

EuropeanLady · 5 months

I do it often, especially if I've asked the person to repeat themselves already and feel very uncomfortable asking them to repeat yet again.

IDontShareMyUsername · 5 months

Her? Oh you flatter me.

BestPseudonym · 5 months

This isn't even SAP, everybody does it.

captainmcr · 5 months

I keep asking til I hear, usually people just say never mind, because I still can't hear them.

nessarose4 · 5 months

I'm sorry I'm soft spoken!

DreamOfTomorrow · 5 months

No, this is dumb. If you couldn't hear that person, then they need to speak up. If they repeated something with the same voice level, I can't help but think what an idiot.

mrbooze · 5 months

I have a really hard time understanding conversations in crowded environments, so yeah I do this all the time. After making someone repeat themselves once I can't bring myself to do it again.

2-3-5-7 · 5 months

When you're learning a foreign language it happens about 20 times a day every fucking day of the week. Eventually you get used to it.

bigtree32098 · 5 months

yup. then immediately change the subject so she doesn't know.

RickPewwy · 5 months

having a collapsed eardrum, I do this every dau

whyamiscreaming · 5 months

I don't do that. But when I am in situation like those though, I keep asking "what?" (honestly didn't understand them) for a few times and end up looking like an idiot.

jonobox · 5 months

You have no idea how much I do this. I'm completely deaf out of one ear and I only have about 80% hearing in the other one. I end up doing this for about half the conversations I have with people.

illmtK · 5 months

It's more common over the phone since bitches love to slurr and mumble.

duhduhduhduhduh · 5 months

Hah. At least it's better than my SAP: I keep asking until I hear. This can take up to 5 tries.

fappy_days · 5 months

i fuck sheep

robertansen68 · 5 months

I used to work with a bunch of black people at Piccadilly.I would never understand what a lot of people would say. I would laugh and say "Ha" because I was embarrassed , and didn't understand what they had said. Many times I asked for someone to repeat what they had said, to only hear the same 'unidentifiable statement'. That was when I started to just say 'Ha,yea".I was just to embarrassed to have them repeat it a third time.......and if you think I'm racist...this job was at Piccadilly at Bon Marche Mall in Baton Rouge in 1984 behind Mall City....nuff said

KindaOffTopic · 5 months

I just do the upward one way nod. Like ooo. That way I don't like look I am nodding at something that should not be nodded at.

Stutenandi · 5 months

So true...

TacticalOgre · 5 months

I do this shit all the time, but it's mostly from not being able to hear well out of my right ear. Any background noise and I have no idea what she or anyone else says.

eppursimouve · 5 months

HAH. today I stuck w/ it, and made her say what she was saying thrice. Wasn't a very profound comment, but I heard it loud and clear in the end.

[deleted] · 5 months

I was talking to this girl with a really strong accent and I couldn't understand what she was saying. I ended up nodding weirdly and she thought I was strange.

AwwElizabeth · 5 months

Story of my life....

beeUnit · 5 months

I do this a lot, so much that I'm pretty good at figuring out what someone said after 10 seconds of them talking. They are like little mini mystery quests piecing together who the woman was that was having sex with the roommate's best friend. Then I get caught up and smile a bit at my quick discovery and the person I'm talking to says "What?" and I go "Hmm?" and then they say, "You just smiled". Almost every single time this is exactly what happens to me.

taiwanboy707 · 5 months

Yup. I'll ask twice, and if I still couldn't hear I feel bad and just go along with it.

What's kinda sad about it is that everyone around me knows I'm partially deaf, and do they compensate? Nope. <:/ Thus is life lol

tarheel5150 · 5 months

It's even worse on the phone than in person.

anoxy · 5 months

God damnit, I clicked this hoping for the top comment to be a perfect gif illustrating said gesture, but instead I got some retard agreeing with you.

TheArtBug · 5 months

Soft-spoken girl here, I think this is how most my conversations go ಠ_ಠ

clarkcb · 5 months

One time my friend's mom told me that their family dog had passed away, I didn't hear her so I nodded and did a fake laugh. She gave me a look of disapproval and said, "Do you not believe me?"

Llaine · 5 months

This meme is usually spot on with me. Not sure if all of reddit is SAP, or I'm just socially awkward.

mabobby · 5 months

I started saying "once more with feeling" people hate it.

ecstaticplatypus · 5 months

I work at Tropical Smoothie and I have like 4 fucking blenders going at once and it is IMPOSSIBLE to hear orders when I'm trying to take them. A lot of times I have them point to the smoothie they want on the menu and guess what they said their name was and hope I got it right. I was already pretty much half deaf. I am going to lose my hearing there.

briang1339 · 5 months

People always get pissed the third time

Jedimindtrixx · 5 months

I usually just keep asking them to repeat until they are the ones who give up.

numar · 5 months

I usually match their tone while saying something generic like "ok"

[deleted] · 5 months

I do that so often and yet it never works out. What's wrong with me.

widarlein · 5 months

Gawd, I do this with everyone.. at least after the second time of asking what they say. I don't think I have bad hearing or something, I just have a general problem hearing when people talk. It's weird.

BuckeyeBentley · 5 months

For loud bars I have an "ah?" sound down pat that can be interpreted as agreement, questioning further, or commiseration depending on context. I basically do that and slightly nod my head a little bit.

KingTroll69 · 5 months

One of my signature moves.

KingJeet · 5 months

True story

airborneANDrowdy · 5 months

Welcome to ADHD

screenteamshow · 5 months

Damn thing happens to me daily.

air_handling_unit_24 · 5 months

The best strategy is to let her know right from the start that one ear is terribly bad off and on, especially when you feel a cold comin.

midas22 · 5 months

If I can't hear the second time I just say "what they fuck are you saying, you sound like you're drunk or something". It's a part of growing up and it works better than you might think.

phasmy · 5 months

I just keep asking them to repeat themselves if I don't catch it the second time. I NEED TO KNOW.

PerogiXW · 5 months

I actually don't hear as well in my right ear, and if there's a lot of background noise I have to really focus to hear some people talk. Still makes me feel like a SAP.

nsomani · 5 months

My friends have gotten so used to me doing this that they repeat things when they don't even have to sometimes.

smiteme · 5 months

Unfortunately there is no way to respond in an unawkward way in this way

ionothanus · 5 months

I did this about 6 times in a row once... before realizing she had spilled her drink in her lap and was asking for some paper towel.

The music was loud, OK?

baryluk · 5 months

Happens to me about 10 times a day (I hear slightly worse on left ear, and often my gf is just too quiet), sometimes In consecutive sentences, sometimes even needs repetition like 2 or 4 times. I drives me mad, I need to do this.

Atario · 5 months

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