*Insert Applause Here*

“Yep. Can’t believe I just said that”, I thought to myself. That was about the dumbest thing I could have said. Love my life right now.

It all started when I was talking to a group of friends about the television show “Switched at Birth”. In that show, there is a school for the deaf. I had never watched the show, but Anna had been watching it and I peeked over her shoulder to see a girl on the show stomping like she was having a temper tantrum. I asked Anna why she did that and she said “To get the guy’s attention because he was walking away from her. He’s deaf and so in order to get his attention, she had to stomp on the floor to create vibrations that he could feel.” At this point in the show, there was a party at the school with very loud music, and the guy and girl were outside in a quieter area. I thought the idea of creating vibrations was interesting, and I asked how she would get his attention if there was already loud music creating vibrations. Anna said that she would probably just have to chase after him, to which I replied “Or she could yell”.

Even as everyone around me started laughing hysterically, I didn’t understand what I had said until Anna explained it to me. I thought that what I had said made complete sense in the situation. Frankly, I didn’t think at all before saying it, it just kind of come out of my mouth like word vomit. I had just said that in order to get a deaf person’s attention, you should yell when floor vibrations won’t work. That’s right. Yell at a deaf person. Definitely not one of my finest moments.

If I hadn’t said that, nobody would have laughed at me and I wouldn’t have felt stupid. But I got a good laugh out of it myself, so I wasn’t too upset about it. It still makes me laugh to think that I actually said that, and that I didn’t think that there was anything wrong with it.

In the end, it’s okay to ask stupid questions or say stupid things every once in a while. Sometimes you learn from it, and other times you get a great laugh out of it. Neither of those things will hurt you, and when you look back at those moments, you will be filled with laughter instead of embarassment and nervousness. There is a such thing as a stupid question, but that doesn’t make them bad.