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This has happened to me so many times I probably shouldn’t even be considered a fluent speaker of English. If I had to guess, I’d say it happens at least once a week—but probably once every couple of days. It happens so often I’ve pretty much just been ignoring it for the past six or seven years now.

It has nothing to do with bad hearing. I can hear fine; it comes through loud and clear. It’s just that whatever people are talking at me occasionally disintegrates into a conglomerate of approximately English tones that don’t actually seem to mean anything. Even if I ask people to repeat it, and even when they slow down, it’s still sometimes just a pile of garble. (Then sometimes like five minutes later—after it doesn’t matter any more—my brain figures it out.) I usually try and fake my way out of it, which works if I can gauge whether or not the question was supposed to be serious or a joke. The rest of the time? Epic Fail.

-Pulsar

PS—A “SKU”, pronounced “skew”, is a Stock Keeping Unit: a unique identifier which tracks a particular type of inventory. Updating databases with new ones is something I do on occasion.