Saying 'What?' when you heard me.

[jeffbgoofy]

my ten year old son is slowly becoming famous for doing this...don't say what then answer me 2 seconds later...

[heyzeus]

Texas has a more aggravating linguistic habit.

Instead of saying "pardon me" or "can you repeat that" or "sorry?", a lot of people down here respond to everything with "Do what?" People will say this to any statement. It can mean just about anything.

Example:

"Hey heyzeus, why don't you ram your head into that brick wall."
"Do what?"

"Hey heyzeus, bargle flip enuppa soomsay."
"Do what?"

"The Vice President runs the senate"
"Do what?"

[Leroy]

oh man my dad does this but instead he does the "HUH?" even before
i get the sentence completed.. and now i'm starting do to it..

Our last secretary would do that, I'd get two words out and she'd say 'Pardon me'. Man, of course you won't know what I'm saying by two friggin words. My wife used to be bad too, but with enough training and humiliation, she's better.

[JL21]

There's absolutely nothing worse than having to repeat yourself.

[cardinalkarp]

There's absolutely nothing worse than having to repeat yourself.

You know, I was thinking that he'd posted this before too.

[tothebeach08]

my ten year old son is slowly becoming famous for doing this...don't say what then answer me 2 seconds later...

Just wait, this gets much, much worse. The only time the 15-year-old hears me is when I say something about food or golf. I think it's the pre-training for becoming a man and developing selective hearing.

[Leroy]

There's absolutely nothing worse than having to repeat yourself.

You know, I was thinking that he'd posted this before too.

Oh dear, I'm loosing it.

[TimeForGuinness]

There's absolutely nothing worse than having to repeat yourself.

There's absolutely nothing worse than having to repeat yourself.

[Hungary Jack]

Man this drives me nuts. Our last secretary was very bad at it, and our new one isn't much better. Basically they are just saying 'What? Huh? Pardon me?' or whatever just to give themselves time to process what I said. I don't need an answer in a nanosecond, take your time and think about what I said!

With our last secretary, sometimes I would just sit there and she would say 'Pardon me?' and wait a couple of seconds until she processed what I said, and she would respond, but she still said it was my fault for speaking to softly.

You obviously intimidate your poor secretary by standing there.

[Socnorb11]

Man this drives me nuts. Our last secretary was very bad at it, and our new one isn't much better. Basically they are just saying 'What? Huh? Pardon me?' or whatever just to give themselves time to process what I said. I don't need an answer in a nanosecond, take your time and think about what I said!

With our last secretary, sometimes I would just sit there and she would say 'Pardon me?' and wait a couple of seconds until she processed what I said, and she would respond, but she still said it was my fault for speaking to softly.

Technically, saying "Pardon me" is an admission of her own guilt, not an accusatory phrase.