My Mom and I regularly wrote emails back and forth, beginning with Compuserve many years ago. We later moved on to AOL.
When we adopted a deaf child, Mom learned sign language with no hesitation, so she could come into his world.
And she loved watching interpreters, or, as she called them, “interrupters”.
I know one of the goals of interpreters is to interrupt the proceedings as little as possible, while smoothing out and facilitating communication as much as possible.
I want to share the following email about interpreters Mom sent to me. I am copying and pasting it here exactly as she sent it to me. I thought you might enjoy a chuckle today.
“Donna, I went to the play, Saturday Night Fever: yesterday afternoon. It was good, but even better they had interrupters, a husband and wife. He did a great job and I tended to watch the interrupters rather than the actors. And where our seats were it was easy to see them. I even signed to them when the play was over. ‘Good job on interrupting.’ And that my daughter was an interrupter.”
I still laugh every time I read this. And remember — this was long before we could blame our words on an overzealous automatic spell checker. Oh I miss my precious Mom so much, every day!
LESSON LEARNED: The minor errors we are so afraid will make us look stupid may instead become someone else’s precious memory.
LESSON LEARNED: Save funny things that happen with loved ones, so that one day I can look back, remember and smile.
LESSON LEARNED: Tell my precious loved ones how much they mean to me and how much I love them, now, while I have the chance, before they go to heaven.
LESSON LEARNED: Some mistakes make funny stories.
Here are the links to my signing and cueing YouTube “Word Of The Day” channels. I post a new word every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Check it out and I would love to know what you think of them!
YouTube ASL Word Of The Day with PSE Sentence Examples: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLOG4fqHRMQ8zL3llMl9YDg/
YouTube Cued Speech Word Of The Day: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxojUy-dP6C2YKp3BWQPg1w/
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My Life, by DAG 
I miss your mom too. She meant so much to me.
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