r/mildlyinfuriating • u/BiteInfamous • 10h ago

I'm slightly vexed Taxi driver wearing noise cancelling headphones while driving in the city

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Look I’m PMSing so I’m admittedly in a very nit picky time of my life. But. Don’t love weaving in and out of traffic in a major city while the taxi driver has noice cancelling headphones on. The sound is loud enough I can hear whatever (moderately funny) comedy show he’s listening to in the backseat. This is ill advised, yes?

ETA thanks to everyone who taught me about transparent mode today :)

ETA2 : Okay, I’m the asshole, comments have shown me there’s lots that could be going on with the driver to make him need to use these and there’s way he could do so safely. Mea culpa. That’ll teach me to knee jerk react.

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u/mandatorypanda9317 10h ago edited 8h ago

So now I gotta ask because I genuinely dont know, are deaf people not allowed to drive? I dont think ive ever thought about it

Edit: the answer is YES THEY CAN DRIVE (thank you for pointing out my dumbass use of the English language haha) I also looked up laws in my state about headphones and apparantly here you can only wear them over ONE ear lol

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u/framingXjake 9h ago

When I worked in fast food, I regularly had customers in my drive thru who were deaf. I would greet them over the speaker not knowing they were deaf and they would honk to let me know they had already paid through our app and were about to pull around to the window. Saved them the hassle of trying to communicate with someone who doesn't know ASL (me).

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u/creatyvechaos 9h ago

I was born deaf (underdeveloped eardrums) but could hear okayish by the time I was 7. In that time period I learned ASL, but never had to use it again after that. I can still vaguely "picture" the signs (quotes because aphantasia, it's more.....instinctually knowing I'm thinking of it?? Hard to explain) but I can't piece them together fluidly, and my other language learning also interfers with the structure and grammar of ASL. I currently have a deaf coworker, so I've been picking up on sign language again, but....It does make me wish it was a required course at least in middle school.

Whoever said "you'll never forget ASL because it's muscle memory" was not aware that muscle memory can atrophy through lack of use

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u/Adorable_Ad4990 7h ago

You’ll remember it if you start using it again though

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u/creatyvechaos 44m ago

Yeah tell that to my neural pathways. They aren't doin shit lmfao