NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/bit/listserv/deafl/2756

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Newsgroups: bit.listserv.deaf-l
Subject: Driving with deaf drivers
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Date: 11 Jan 93 14:53:10 +0200
Organization: University of Cape Town
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To all of you who do not hear so well, or even at all, I say congrats on
having your driver's licence. Many of us are just too lazy , and prefer to
be driven around. Thank goodness I am not one of those. But I will tell
you how disconcerting it is to drive in a car with a deaf driver. (or at
least I found it so.)

A whole group of us went walking up in the mountains the other day, and to
save petrol, we all piled into just a few cars. My deaf friend decided she
would drive her car, and I readily agreed.

Well, she is a marvellous driver, and we had no accidents, and not even any
near ones, but how I do not know.

I found it was very difficult driving when the driver was looking at me
instead of looking at the road. Angela was such a chatterbox, thet she would
just not keep quiet. I tried to look where we were going, but then she could
not lipread, and she got upset.

After a while she decided to talk to our other deaf friend in the back, so
down went the rearview mirror, and she was talking to the girl quite happily.

By the time we got to the mountain my nerves were quite shot, and then we
still had to drive back again!!!

Well, we are still good friends, but in future I think I will drive, or we
will drive in SILENCE.

Hope this year is a good one for all who read this...
Bye,

Jean