4:28 – Yes
Oops, got home too late to post last night, but Oscar came through with another sign. He’s seen this one for a very long time, but has refused to actually use it. Oscar will not answer “yes” or “no” to any question ever posed. Ever. He grunts, he yells, he arches his back. You get the picture . . . but he doesn’t actually say yes or no (or sign them).
Last night, though I did manage to get him to sign “yes” to milk [you sign yes by making a fist with your right hand and bending your wrist down and up (like you're nodding your fist)]. You know how salespeople trick you into buying things by getting you to say yes to little things they know you’ll say yes to (getting you in the habit of responding positively to them) and then hit you with the big sales push? I used this technique on Oscar last night. I knew he wanted milk. I asked him a series of questions to which the answers were all yes. I let him give me his standard grunt that means yes. He did. And then I pushed him to actually give me the sign when I asked him if he wanted milk. Success. Sadly, I think this is only going to work in extreme cases, but for the time being I’m okay with it. Baby steps.
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