STEP TWO: soup1

Now you get to eat the soup!  Make your fingers into the "H" position from the HardcoreASL Fingerspelling section you learned previously in the book and bend the "H" a bit so it looks like a spoon and dip that spoon into the soup.  Watch out, it's hot!

STEP THREE: soup2

Okay, now to complete the sign for soup you have to pretend to eat the soup.  So take your bended "H" spoon from the soup bowl and bring it up to your hungry lips.  Repeat two or three times to get the idea of the action of the motion gets the idea across.

STEP FOUR: bug

Ew!  You found a bug in your soup!  Bring your "H" soup spoon hand up under your right eye and separate the fingers a bit and bend them a few times like you're pulling the trigger on a gun.  Your flexing fingers are suggesting the movement of the insect.  Gross!  Let's move on before we all hurl over the page!

STEP FIVE: there

Okay, now you've had it.  You point to the precise location of where that ugly bug is in your soup!  Location is important.  You told us about the bug now you are showing us exactly where to find it in your soup.

STEP SIX: disgust

Now you get to use your Magic Tongue!  (See the Sidebar below)  Stick that tongue out a bit -- but not too far -- you aren't French Kissing your bug or the waiter -- and make the universal sign for being nauseous and ready to barf up your guts!  Okay, you're a little too good at that, let's finish up the sentence...

STEP SEVEN: bowl-here

You are fed up with this rotten service and so you grab your buggy soup bowl by the edges so you can return it to the kitchen.

STEP EIGHT: back-to-you

But instead of returning it nicely to the kitchen you throw the soup back in the face of your waiter because every time you come to this rotten restaurant he puts a bug in your soup!  Now the bug up his ass is stuck on his nose!  Congratulations!  You're now ready for a night out on the town of elegant dining.