Don’t You Just Hate It When . . .
Posted by: Pamela Mertz on: November 3, 2015
Someone asks you to repeat something you’ve just stuttered on and you stutter again the same way?
You’re remarkably fluent all day and when something important comes up, you have a huge, ugly block?
Someone uses those annoying hand gestures to hurry you along in your speaking?
You’re on the phone with a doctor’s office and you stutter on your date of birth and the receptionist asks, “are you sure?”
Someone rolls their eyes at you when you’re in a mid-stutter?
You begin to stutter and your listener looks so uncomfortable you actually feel sorry for them?
You can’t get hazelnut out in the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, so you order french vanilla, even though you don’t like it?
A grown adult mimics your stuttering and then laughs, thinking he’s just told a great joke?
Someone finishes your word or sentence for you and they’re right?
A waiter brings you the wrong thing and you’re afraid to speak up to send it back because you might stutter again?
November 3, 2015 at 1:40 PM
Legit, my life. Although I’ve been quite lucky and never crossed paths with grown adults who’d make fun of me. *Fingers crossed it stays that way*