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ARE YOU HEARING THE AIRPLANES YOU’RE SEEING?

The Hiller Aviation Museum was between 2 stops on my recent little “tourlette” around San Francisco, so, you know me. First time ever that I got to pay the senior price for admittance - I just keep forgetting that I can do that in places - made it a must go see. How did I know it was a huge kid’s day thing going on at this usually sleepy museum?

Threading through the throngs (great album name) to look at this or that you had to invariably step in front of someone to look at an exhibit. I found myself crossing in front of a couple looking at a small helicopter just in front of the the thing I wanted to read. They were speaking in ASL. As I brushed adjacent to them to see the placard I did a circle on my chest with my fist, pointed to my eyes, and pointed to the placard. “Sorry, I’m just trying to see that writing” said my piss poor criminally limited ASL

“No problem!” was the aural reply from the tall red-headed deaf man, in that nasally tone that deaf folks often have when they opt to speak out loud to hearing folks.

Fast forward to the gift shop. Sweet Heavens please deliver me from $15 a piece rare magazines that I don’t need but there I was contemplating 3 of them. I look up from the magazine rack and there's a stunning 5 X 3 cartographic map of the world on the wall. Saddling up next to me is the huge red-headed deaf guy ogling he same. Silence for a moment, then I did my hand over my face like face washing, closing it. Then I made an airplane hand on my chest and rubbed - these 2 gestures meaning “Wow that’s beautiful. I love it”. “Red" points at himself with a nasal “Me too.”

“Sorry my ASL is such shit,” I mouth to him hoping he reads lips. He laughs, vigorously shakes his head no and says “Thank you...” I sign “thank you” in return

Another moment of silence, we both look at the map, and, waving his arms about, he says out loud “I want one to cover a whole wall!!”

Oh, we laughed.

Thank you, Falcon Ridge, Jody, Dorothy. I’m now ASL fluent (like 10 gestures) thanks to you all, plus my audacity, charm, humor, and airplanes.