*insert that line from Pulp Fiction here*

[edible_hat]

SC: (holding todays newspaper) *incoherent mumbling* newspaper
Me: Ok so that's the newspaper and...
SC: *incoherent mumbling*!
Me: Sorry I didn't catch that.
SC: ESCORT RED 20S! Why do I have to repeat myself everywhere I go?

Maybe if he went around trying to communicate in an actual language he wouldn't have to.

Remember folks: If you get the same bad service everywhere you go, you're the one that's doing it wrong.

[Slytovhand]

"That's a very good question there, sir. Have you worked out a common denominator yet?"

[karath]

Remember folks: If you get the same bad service everywhere you go, you're the one that's doing it wrong.

Now THAT'S both common sense and a great way to identify SC's.

[edible_hat]

"That's a very good question there, sir. Have you worked out a common denominator yet?"

To really mess with his head, say that after getting him to repeat the question a couple of times.

[friendofjimmyk]

GAH!!!! I hate mumblers. Hate em, hate em, hate em!!!!! I've known a few in my personal life and they always get mad if you ask them to repeat themselves. One of my friends used to always proclaim, "NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ME!" like it was everyone's fault BUT his.

Hello, McFly - if you say "no one" understands you - WHAT is the common denominator!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!?! GRRRR!

[Evil Queen]

My roommate X is like that. He'll start the conversation just fine and slowly start to mumble until he's not saying anything, thinking his words and expects me to be psychic.

I keep telling him I'm going to charge him a nickel for every word he mumbles.

[Raieth]

I find that putting my hand to my ear and leaning in before asking them to repeat themselves works wonders.

Although once I was having a bad day and said "I"m sorry I don't speak mumble. If you could repeat that in english I would appriciate it."

I'm damn lucky the guy had a sense of humor and apoligized saying that he forgets that he mumbles.

[Kaylyn]

*does her best Johnny Depp in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory impression*

MUMBLER!!!

(sorry, couldn't resist)

[Spiffy McMoron]

"That's a very good question there, sir. Have you worked out a common denominator yet?"

Hmmm...I don't think that was a line from Pulp Fiction...I'll guess, "What ain't no country I ever heard of. Does they speak English in What?"

[Peppergirl]

My ex-bf, who I'm still really good friends with, is a chronic mumbler.

He too bitches about people not being able to understand him.

When he does, I say exactly that - "Stop freakin' mumbling and they might!!"

[BookstoreEscapee]

My dad mumbles. He insists that he doesn't. We tend to respond to that with "What?"

[blas]

Another thing I don't miss about my ex bf. I doubt it was the cellphone provider's fault, either, like he always said it was. He would mumble so bad and then he'd get irritated when I kept asking him to repeat himself. Yarg....

I used to get mumblers at the gas station all the time too. Used to drive me insane....

[AdminAssistant]

Hmmm...I don't think that was a line from Pulp Fiction...I'll guess, "What ain't no country I ever heard of. Does they speak English in What?"

Maybe you should start working on mumblers with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch?? I know I would LOVE to.

When I worked at the Maxx in KC, a lot of the younger kids that worked there used their ghetto slang to sound super cool...I had to tell more than one to stop it with the mumblese and you ASK a question, you do not AXE a question!

[edible_hat]

Hmmm...I don't think that was a line from Pulp Fiction...I'll guess, "What ain't no country I ever heard of. Does they speak English in What?"

I was thinking of "English, Oedipus. DO YOU SPEAK IT?"

("Oedipus" makes a fine and dandy substitute for "motherf***er")

[Lace Neil Singer]

That's what I was thinking too.

And I've found that some mumblers also ask you to repeat stuff for some reason; hmm, deaf and mumbly?