![]() I almost screamed at her but instead, I gave her a nasty look, slammed the document on the kitchen table, turned around and left without saying another word. Just today, I stopped by their house to drop off a document they needed and when I opened the front door, I said, “Hi mom where’s da…” (in a reasonable volume) and before I could even finish my sentence, my mom put her finger up to her mouth and said, “SHHHHH!!!”. ![]() We’ve gotten into many fights about it, yet she continues to do it. I’m 36 years old and my mom still shushes me. Let’s just say, if you really want me to be quiet, you better not shush me. In fact, in many cases, if you ask someone to be quiet by shushing, they will probably feel more inclined to retaliate and therefore talk louder. It’s hard to really tell if one is actually thinking, “if you don’t shut your mouth right now I will throw a book at you” or instead, “I really wish they would be more quiet.” This missing information causes a lack of dire knowledge: the real nature of the “shusher’s” request. The real problem with “shushing” is it’s quite difficult to read the tone of such noise. They may think they’re just kindly requesting silence, when in reality, they are sending darts through my ears. ![]() Many people are unaware of their actions when they compulsively let the sound slip out of their lips. Regardless, whenever they do their terrible deed, a part of me wants to cover my ears and curl up into a ball. There are aggressive shushers, there are constant shushers, there are nondiscrete shushers and there are mixtures of all three. It’s harsh, it’s shrill and often causes spit to fly out of one’s mouth, along with being rude and unreadable-what’s not to hate? “Shushing” is my biggest pet-peeve by far. You can put your pointer finger to your mouth, you can whisper “be quiet” or you can even harshly shout “shut up.” But by far, the king of the most irritating and unnecessary ways of quieting someone down is “shushing.”Įven just seeing the letters “s” and “h” standing alone in that order makes me cringe. There are many ways to ask someone to lower their speaking volume. ![]()
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