I actually met another person who lives in my building yesterday. You’d think that with only 12 units in my building I’d have known everybody by now… but no.<\/p>\n
I’ve seen this guy around before, and we’ve even said hi to each other before. He’s almost always either loading his jeep up with camping, hiking, or kayaking supplies, or he’s unloading the jeep so that he can air everything out before going back into the wild. He must go out to woods and lakes at least once a week, no matter the weather. It’s incredible<\/span>.<\/p>\n He’s also deaf, or at least very hard of hearing. I hadn’t noticed before today that he relies almost entirely on lip reading. So as I walked past him this evening, scurrying for the warmth of the apartment, he called out, “Hi.”<\/p>\n “Hi,” I responded.<\/p>\n “I’m alright, just a little cold,” he answered.<\/p>\n [“Hmmm<\/span>, he didn’t hear me. Is he just hard of hearing? Will he hear if I speak louder?”]<\/p>\n “IT SURE IS COLDER LATELY!” I said, with emphasis. <\/p>\n At this point he gave a little frustrated smile and ran to catch up with me so he could see my lips. And from that point on we had a rather nice conversation without any -er- emphasis on either side.<\/p>\n Turns out he lives under Mr. Never There, who lives across the hall from me. Just my luck that I have noise-sensitive Ms. Second Floor living under me (or rather, under my loud-as-all-get-out cat), but Mr. Never There gets Deaf Guy as his downstairs neighbor. The apartment gods were having a good giggle the day they dreamt this one up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I actually met another person who lives in my building yesterday. You’d think that with only 12 units in my building I’d have known everybody by now… but no. I’ve seen this guy around before, and we’ve even said hi to each other before. He’s almost always either loading his jeep up with camping, hiking, … Continue reading Slowly but Surely<\/span>