The same thing happened with "Excuse me" except then they assumed they had offended me. However, it turned out that switching to "Say what?" or "Say what, sorry?" worked pretty good, so I go with that if there starts to be trouble with the other ones. Just plain "Sorry?" works pretty well too.
Keeping a nice neutral tone, a sort of "brisk and worn-by-repetition-to-mechanicalness" tone, helped too, I think.
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Date: 2013-06-12 10:50 pm (UTC)Keeping a nice neutral tone, a sort of "brisk and worn-by-repetition-to-mechanicalness" tone, helped too, I think.