Always had this and it may have got me in trouble once or twice..
At a nightclub once with a few friends and ended up meeting an equal size group of ladies and we all kind of banded together for the rest of the night, few drinks and dancing ect.
During the night my friends all paired off, leaving me and the last of their group sitting together in the chillout area.
It was still quite loud as she leaned over and shouted something to me, followed by a rather hopeful smile.
I heard nothing. At all. I was not even looking directly at her so could not lip read either, so just replied directly to her optimistic face with a cheerful and confident ‘Yep!’ and wandered off to get a drink.
Unfortunately, according to my friend who was sitting nearby she had actually been fishing for a compliment from me and had said ‘ Aww, looks like you got left with the ugly one then, gorgeous’.
I felt quite bad as she was a lovely girl.. Swing and a miss 🙂