[Balding_Eagle]

Since you brought up the common sense angle, let’s start there.

Use some common sense and just a bare touch of reading comprehension and you will see that I was responding to a specfic situation encounted by the poster I was responding to.

Using just a smidgen of common sense, I can see that you may need a second cup of coffe too!

[dmw]

“Since you brought up the common sense angle, let’s start there.”

No, actually you brought it up in your first post. Here’s what you said:

“A little comon sense is needed on both sides.”

Then you went on to say:

“Suppose the clerk had greeted you instead of your wife, and it was you who was rude to the cleck by ignoring her.................”

Yes, suppose that was the case, how would you have suggested the guy with the crowbar deal with this incident?

Then you said:

“Unless the deaf hang a sign around their neck, some awkward moments are sure to occur.”

So that’s it? Deaf people will just have to expect getting their head bashed in occasionally by idiots who have a chip on their shoulder and don’t want to be dissed?

What’s your common sense suggestion for deaf people who might be put into situations like this? I’d really like to know.