My grandmother is about 98% deaf.
And she lives in China.
Which makes having a conversation with her nearly impossible. Most of the time, she just talks and I make enough noise over the phone so she knows I'm listening. Because it's almost always harder to verbalized a negative as opposed to an affirmative, I usually just let her assumptions go without correcting them.
She found out from my parents that I had a month's worth of corporate housing after moving to Australia. She somehow misinterpreted this to mean I was only being given one month's salary. I spent the last 15 minutes, yelling at the top of my lungs, trying to convince her not to send her life savings over to me in Australia.
My housemates probably think I am some kind of Chinese Jack Bauer, demanding nuclear launch codes over phone from a cowardly, incompetent middling bureaucrat.
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