I had my blood pressure checked on Saturday, and the nurse who was taking the reading got restless and called her colleague over to double check the machine.

“There is something wrong, his reading is too low.” The nurse muttered in Mandarin.

“He just has low blood pressure.” The other nurse replied.

All this happened right in front of me, oblivious to the fact that I was sitting right in front of them, listening to the whole exchange. Were they assuming that I did not understand?

They hooked me up to another machine, and the reading was the same.

“He just has low blood pressure.” The nurse said in relief. “Should we tell him?”

“No, we don’t want to worry him for nothing.” The other nurse said with certainty.

WTH!?!? I have heard everything already. Really, I am not invisible or deaf.