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When person you were talking to couldn't hear you.

"Sorry, Stu, I think you were mumbling a little. I couldn't hear you." You know what? just forget it!

— Stuart from Brooklyn, NY | Conversation | 6.2.2009 | Comments (6)

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Or when someone gabs at you while a band is playing, or during another noisy situation where it's clearly impossible to hear.

— Biffy posted 6/2/2009

On a related note when you ask someone to repeat themselves and they do so but not any louder

— just my opinion posted 8/4/2009

Although I understand this pet peeve as an annoyance, I have to say that as someone who is hard of hearing, it is equally as frustrating when I really can't hear/understand you and you refuse to repeat it.

— hard of hearing posted 9/10/2009

Asking someone to repeat something a little louder (I'm slightly deaf sometimes), and they do, but turn away or mumble or something. I can't ask for another repeat without sounding like an intattentive jerk, but I can't continue the conversation because I couldn't hear what was said.

— Jim posted 10/20/2009

How about if the person talking really was mumbling or, better, looking away from the listener. Now it's the listener's fault for not hearing you? Excuse me! If you want people to hear you speak at an appropriate volume for the listener (loud if the person is hard of hearing - even if they don't want to admit it...), enunciate properly (no mumbling or stumbling over words), and look at the listener (can't hear you if you are facing away...). If you do these things, people "not hearing you" will not happen nearly as often!

— Meg posted 12/12/2009

If it's the same person over and over, maybe they are a bit hard of hearing. If, on the other hand, it happens frequently and with more than one or two people, perhaps you should work on not mumbling.

— Rhayne posted 1/26/2011

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