DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, May 23, 2016
-- deaf Uber driver overcomes problems
Paul Dimiti, Stamford, CT, has been a driver with
Uber for over a year. He successfully overcame
his struggles as a rookie driver last year. His
first Uber client was so angry about being "stuck"
with a deaf driver that he slammed the door loudly
after arriving at the destination! Dimitri has
since then learned to explain, rather than to
surprise, the customers about his deafness and
on how to communicate. He also overcame bad
customer satisfaction ratings to become a
top-notch driver. So far he picked up 3,000
fares, one of them a blind customer and another
customer that wanted a ride to Pennsylvania.
It is not his primary job, as he works at the
New York School for the Deaf in White Plains.
A picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/deaf-uber-driver-with-his-car/
-- immature student interpreter scolded by peers
An interpreting program student went out shopping
with a friend. She arrived just before the store
closed up for the night and was asked by the clerk
to please leave. She refused and played "deaf"
pretending not to understand what the clerk was
saying. Upon arriving at the college dorm, she
bragged to her deaf friends that she played
"deaf" and expected all of them to laugh with her.
She was shocked to find her deaf friends
scolding her for making the deaf people look bad!
-- swallowing a hearing aid
All pediatricians share stories of children
swallowing stuff that is not food. A popular
tale is a hearing aid being swallowed. Always
wondering who swallowed the hearing aid. Was
it a deaf kid swallowing his hearing aid?
Was it a hearing kid swallowing his sibling's
hearing aid? Or even was it a kid swallowing
parent's hearing aid?
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- TV, longest continuing deaf TV host
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
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