So I'm taking an ASL class this semester. I have loved it and because of that I am always teaching my roommates new signs that I learn. Tonight Sam and I were talking about ASL and she made this awesome sign and asked what it meant. Of course the first thing that popped out of my mouth was "Sam." This is entirely untrue because there aren't typically signs for general names, in the ASL community you are assigned a "name sign" by a deaf person. Lucky for me I hadn't told Sam that yet. She didn't believe me at first, but I could tell that there was a part of her that thought it just might be true. So I tried to make it seem more legitimate. I made up other signs for other common names and I even got our other roommate Becca to pretend like I had already shown them to her so that she could play along. To Sam's credit She was very skeptical of us for a long time, but the longer we went on the more I could tell she was wondering if we really were telling the truth. So then I told her to call up our friend, that has been helping me with ASL because he served an ASL mission, and ask him if that was right. (Right before this I text him and told him to agree with me with whatever Sam might say) So, she called him and tried to explain to him the sign... this was definitely the best part. We were all laughing our heads off because it was such a weird thing to describe and we could only imagine what he was thinking on the other end. He told her that he didn't understand what she meant and to send him a picture. This is what she sent...
It was soo funny. Our friend text back and said that was it and at this point we basically had Sam convinced, although she says otherwise. Then she was really distraught because she didn't want to believe us but Scott had just told her that it was real. The conflict going on in her head was hilarious. So she texts him one more time to see if it really was and he said, "I plead the fifth." So then she knew, but it was really funny while it lasted and we got such a good picture and laugh from it.
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