Actual conversation I had on the bike trial today: Person: “Why...
Benjamin Ze’ev 📚🎻🏺@ArchaeoBenjamin
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Apr 25, 2026
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Actual conversation I had on the bike trial today:
Person: “Why does your vest that say ‘Deaf Cyclist’?”
Me: “To alert other riders that I cannot hear or react to them unless I can see them.”
Person: “But you’re not deaf. You’re talking to me right now!”
Person: “Why does your vest that say ‘Deaf Cyclist’?”
Me: “To alert other riders that I cannot hear or react to them unless I can see them.”
Person: “But you’re not deaf. You’re talking to me right now!”
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Me: “So that’s not…you know what, never mind.”
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Residual hearing + powerful hearing aids + lip reading + calm environment directly facing the person I am talking to = I can generally hold a pretty normal conversation.
Still can't hear jack shit while on a bike when you're behind me.
Still can't hear jack shit while on a bike when you're behind me.
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Damn. This blew up.
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Muting this like I mute the world when I take my hearing aids off at night.
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*TRAIL, not "trial."
Look, G-d saw fit to fuck me up in more ways than one.
Look, G-d saw fit to fuck me up in more ways than one.
