You know when you don’t hear what someone says and so you ask them to repeat it …

[StressfulBedtimes]

Why do they then go on to only repeat half the sentence? Or even worse, and in DPs case, just one word from it?!

This just happened and happens regularly;
I’m in the bedroom and he’s in the bathroom
DP: mmmhhhdbdffg
Me (walking into the landing): what did you say?
DP: earbuds
Me: 🤨 what about them? I didn’t hear what you said
DP: I asked about the earbuds
Me: what about the earbuds!?! 😤
etcetc

Why? Why not just repeat the whole sentence the first time and save us all this

If you do this - do you realise how infuriating you are?!

Or when you say ‘sorry I missed that last word could you repeat it?’ And they start the whole paragraph over again.

The worst is when you ask someone to repeat what they said becasue u didn't hear it the first time and they said 'don't worry'. So annoying

You're married to my DH. Drives me up the wall, that repeating of one word in the whole sentence. Or just the end when it's the beginning I missed 😡

I find it infuriating that I have to repeat everything when people won't sort of their hearing!

Yeeeesssss! DH does this. Mumbles at the start so I catch the last word, ask him to repeat and he just says the last word again. So useless and frustrating 😤

It's always the first bit I can't hear, then always the second bit that gets repeated. Frustrating.

Or when you've asked them to repeat the sentence and they've just carried on with their train of thought and not repeated anything expecting you to just catch on.

Maybe its your mumbling that's the issue

In my case ive had my ears tested, hearing is borderline being able to do anything abd i struggle with background noise so if youre talking over other things there's nothing i can do other than ask you to speak up

Oh DH does this ALL the time and it drives me bonkers!

I find it infuriating that I have to repeat everything when people won't sort of their hearing!

I have Ménière's disease which means some tones are harder to hear than others, but I've not lost enough hearing to require aids or assistance. If there's any background noise it's very difficult for me to filter lower sounds out.

My husband automatically says 'sorry?' to everything I say whether he heard me or not. Drives me fucking mental.

Misses point entirely...

Me too! But also, like OPs, he repeats the last word if I say I didn't hear him. Most often when I'm using the mixer and switch it off to ask what he said. You'd think he'd realise I missed all of it 😂

This must be a man thing, because my DH does it, too!

Mumble mumble mumble mumble telly tomorrow
Sorry, what?
Tomorrow!
What about it?
(with mild impatience) On telly tomorrow!
WHAT IS?!!

Then I’m the unreasonable one for getting frustrated!

Mine will repeat his mumblings but won't increase clarity or volume when I've said "I can't hear you!" So I have to say "I still can't hear you!!!" Every. Fucking. Time. This is usually met with "just forget it" by the third or fourth time. Arghhhh!

My mother does this, bloody infuriating. I don't bother repeating myself now, just ignore her.

Even with properly set/calibrating hearing aids, your hearing is never as good as someone without hearing problems. I've had hearing aids for about 10 years, both NHS and private, and it's still no substitute. Aids also amplify background noise, so I miss speech because of crinkling clothes, hums from kitchen appliances, etc.

ExH used to do the opposite.

Him: I walked up the road and over the hill and then I stopped at the shop and bought a < mumble >

Me: You bought a what?

Him: I walked up the road and over the hill and-

Me: I heard that part!

The most frustrating is when people say "pardon" because they don't like the question or to buy time to think of an excuse answer .

I know two people who do this. One is someone who's been over promoted at work but won't admit she needs help and the other is a man who will never tell the simple truth when he can invent an elaborate story.

😂Oh thank goodness for that - I thought it was just my DH who does this!

He also has a habit of starting a sentence and then wandering off into another room while he's still speaking. Or mttering away when he's got his head in a kitchen cupboard and asks me where to find the "fnhwfnfnffgllatn". On being asked to repeat it, he'll say: "I know we had some, where is it?"

My DH is another one where I miss the last word of a sentence but repeats it except the bit I missed.

Arghhhhhhh! My dp does this.

Mfjnfirndnkd in the kitchen?

Sorry, what was that I didn't hear u?

The kitchen?

What about the f&*%ing kitchen. I didn't hear what u said!!!!

Wow, never mind I'll do it now.

😡

You've caught him out talking to himself and he blurted out the first thing he thought of - it just happened to be "earbuds" 😆

Yes! Oh so much this! It's exhausting. 🌹

Really? If only it were so easy to fix.

@hotfroth

Really? If only it were so easy to fix.

Fix - maybe not. Wearing her hearing aids even sometimes rather than leaving them a cupboard would help though. 🌹

My DH says things as he’s walking away, so I have no chance to lip read.
For those finding it irritating to repeat things, it’s equally irritating to have to ask for it to be repeated.

If I could, I’d get my hearing tested. I’ve waited four months for a hearing test appointment, which was today, except they cancelled in an a hour and a half before.