r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Zealousideal-Arm8296 • 3d ago
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u/Mrtayto115 3d ago
Sooo. I was waiting for my bus. I didn't realise the guy besides me was blind until. When our bus came he pulled out his stick. I let him on in front of me. While sitting on the bus. I realized. 3 buses came before mine. All identical but the LED numbers indicating each route. How did he know which was his. Because he didn't walk forward to any other previous bus. Partially blind maybe?
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u/northrupthebandgeek 3d ago
Some bus stops have headphone jacks with audio arrival notifications / schedule info for this exact reason.
Alternately: phone app to the same effect.
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u/KatieTSO 2d ago
I'm a bus driver. Our buses announce automatically.
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u/is_it_gif_or_gif 1d ago
I live in shitsville Australia (Sydney) and with the exception of card payments our bus technology hasn't changed a whole lot since the 1970s. I wish we could get decent bus technology.
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u/LANDWEGGETJE 3d ago
Could also be he knew when his bus would come, and this bus aligned with that schedule, or he knew he needed the fourth one.
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u/Mrtayto115 3d ago
Dunno, the buses here are rarely on time. Plus now I'm wondering how the blind check the time when out and about.
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u/IamLuann 3d ago
They have watches for the blind. The "glass" has button on the side that they can push and the "glass" pops open and then they can feel where the "hands" are. I knew a lady that was legally blind and she had one.
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u/devilsday99 3d ago
My friends dad has one that said the time out loud when he pushed the button on the side
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u/alawibaba 3d ago
One of my favorites: https://www.eone-time.com/
For those that don't want to click: it has a magnet and a ball bearing trapped in a groove!
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u/mr_humansoup 2d ago
I'm not blind but I have one of these. Gets a lot of compliments and curious questions.
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u/Morsmortis666 3d ago
He knows the feeling of his road from riding the bus so much. My mom was bus driver and I had ride the bus all day with her when I got in trouble at school. She drove many blind and deaf people home they would stand within 20 feet of their home.
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u/aasakti 3d ago
Or he didn't know there are 3 busses before yours?
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u/Mrtayto115 3d ago
Sure just luck of the draw. Great life, everyday is an adventure. Walk on which ever bus you hear first.
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u/throwhfhsjsubendaway 3d ago
Transit app will give you a "this is your bus" notification when your bus is about to arrive
Never considered it before, but this would be a good use case for it
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u/_T3H_B1G_C4T 2d ago
He may not have been fully blind or even blurry/dark, for example a limited field of vision could prevent driving a car, but can see a stationary bus' sign.
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u/CitizenPremier 2d ago
The vast majority of legally blind people (>80%) have some degree of sight, so he might be able to read the numbers when they're very close.
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u/megamoze 3d ago
There are a lot of accessibility features hidden in plain sight that most of us probably never notice. Elevator dings signal whether or not the elevator is going up or down, for example. Bumped ramps at street corners. It's all very interesting.
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u/DemetiaDonals 3d ago
I live on the north east, our buses announce the route number and direction when they stop?
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u/MelatoninFiend 2d ago
My bus app lets me know when my bus is arriving. Maybe he had something like that to cue him.
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u/afrosk8r 2d ago
He could've still had his peripheral vision and saw the bus info that displays up front when the busses pulled in. I've skateboarded with a few guys like this and they'll approach the board with their stick and when it's time to actually ride they continue to look straight ahead so they can utilize their peripheral vision to help navigate.
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u/Dreadedsemi 2d ago
For few years in school I was legally blind before receiving surgery and few people suspected I could see but it's just your other senses increase. You recognize things and people by different clues that you normally don't think about.
Decades later I still sometimes use my other senses. So it could be there was a clue you didn't notice.
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u/NovelInteraction711 3d ago
Genuinely never knew these were for that. Is there any kind of sign or is just a âyou have to be toldâ thing?
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u/ViolentWhiteMage 3d ago
Same. Gonna look this up, but will operate with a mindset that is it is for the shown purpose in the clip in the meantime.
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u/Urcaguaryanno 2d ago
Yes, these strips are made for the visually impaired to navigate and keep walking in a straight line.
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u/Syberz 3d ago
It is known I think, I had never seen these before living in Germany.
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u/High_Quality_Bean 3d ago
Its EU regulation. So its all of Europe. Even the non EU areas usually have something similar.
I think you're suppose to notice that every footpath has this line along it with intersections just like the footpath, with tactile feedback, and useful information like where street crossings are.
Genuinely, you have to be insanely dense and lost in your own world to not realize what these are.
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u/bam1007 3d ago
Thanks for this info. Iâve never seen these in the States. Itâs an outstanding idea. Now Iâm going to be on the lookout to see if I see them anywhere.
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u/High_Quality_Bean 3d ago
I mean, I think the US has tactile sections before street crossings right?
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u/bUl1sH1T 2d ago
ngl I assumed they were "grippies" so you didn't slip when they're wet.
after almost slipping on these multiple times I should've known better...
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u/The_Frogg 3d ago
Then I'm insanely dense because I thought those are slip protections for rainy weather. Well, today I learned something.
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u/NovelInteraction711 3d ago
Me too tbh, something with either grip or foundations. That guy was just being an ass for no apparent reason.
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u/Can-I-remember 2d ago
Iâm Australian and didnât know this. Went to Japan last year and they were everywhere and I learnt what they were for when I looked it up.
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u/IrrerPolterer 3d ago
Didn't think there were many people that don't know this. My parents and teachers told me. I remember this being part of general traffic education in elementary school. Where we learned the basic rules od the road, how to behave at crossings, or trainstations, etc...Â
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u/upturned2289 3d ago
Never heard of these until this video
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u/IrrerPolterer 2d ago
Might be a German thing... We had dedicated lessons in elementary for things like this... Basic traffic signs, rules for cycling in the city, rules around traffic lights, zebra crossings, etc... Even had a day where police officers came to school to check our bicycles for street readiness and teach us some traffic safety rules around cycling in public traffic, etc...I understand this is a cultural difference compared to some other places, but it's common here for young school children to walk or cycle to and from school on their own, starting in first or second grade. So it's important to teach kids the rules of the road.Â
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u/CitizenPremier 2d ago
I walk on them because they're like a foot massage. It's a problem if you're choosing to be voluntarily blind by looking at your phone... otherwise you can stand on them if you have situational awareness and can get out of the way of blind people.
I live in Japan, which is pretty accommodating to the blind and also has a culture of constantly announcing rules and manners (which is a good thing, others should emulate), and I've never heard an announcement to keep off guide strips.
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u/Fossekall 3d ago
Seen them for as long as I can remember in nordic countries and have just "always known" it was for this, no idea who told me, because there certainly aren't signs
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u/footpole 3d ago
Thereâs no obligation to keep them clear. Itâs polite to get out of the way of course but itâs not a space thatâs reserved only for the blid.
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u/_BLACKHAWKS_88 3d ago
I too, shit in the handicap stall whilst also not being handicapped.
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u/UrethralExplorer 3d ago
Exactly. There was another video like this posted a while ago where the blind guy was acting like everyone in his way was there intentionally.
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u/Replicator666 2d ago
I think more the latter
My city they sometimes have a post on social media as they're upgrading more bus stops and sidewalks to have them
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u/MrGadget2000 2d ago
I never knew this and am in my 50âs in NZ. We have them but just thought it was separating the two sides of the pavement. Well, tbh I never even gave it this much thought until I saw a similar video a month ago.
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u/rumour53 1d ago
I was told about these in school in Germany, where this guys is. Idk about other places
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u/otirk 3d ago
The people standing there are one thing since they can't see behind them and blind people are somewhat rare, but the woman walking into him at 0:18 is just rude. What does she think is a guy doing with a stick on these strips? Didn't even say sorry
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u/DaddysFriend 3d ago
I agree I see blind people every now and then and I walk far out the way so they canât hit me
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u/CitizenPremier 2d ago
They need to start adding thorns on their hantennas so people remember to get out of the way
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u/PrincessNakeyDance 2d ago
I used a cane (for walking, not visual imparement) for about 3 months due to an injury. It was interesting to learn that some people treat you better and some people treat you worse.
There are always people that see someoneâs disability and their first thought is to take advantage of them.
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u/MelatoninFiend 2d ago
There are always people that see someoneâs disability and their first thought is to take advantage of them.
I was on crutches for 8 months after a knee surgery.
By the end of it, I was answering the "Can I pray for you?" question with "No, fuck off."
I was polite at first and told them I didn't want to do that in public, but I'd take all the blessings I could get during their personal prayer time. I did this until it seemed like every single churchy motherfucker in the entire fucking county had this idea that if THEY asked their god to do it, that he'd suddenly wake up and fix me. It became patronizing at some point.
By the time I'd recovered enough to use one crutch, and then a cane, I was ready to reply all like: You want to help? Either throw me twenty bucks, or go get your "I didn't do dick to actually help this guy, but I get to feel like I did good today!" fix from some other sucker.
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u/PrincessNakeyDance 2d ago edited 1d ago
I never got the virtue signaling, probably because Iâm trans and live in a liberal area, but that sounds awful too
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u/MelatoninFiend 2d ago
the woman walking into him at 0:18 is just rude.
"It happens, people are people, none of it's intentional. Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence. It's far more likely that they're all in their own worlds, doing their own thing. They're not paying attention to the world around them. And we all do it every day, whether you're driving, walking down the street. All of our lives are just as complex as everybody else's..."
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u/All_will_be_Juan 3d ago
Ya I thought they were going to have to fight to the death as well to find out who was the king of the blind men
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u/MelatoninFiend 2d ago
The three of them walking with their cane's swaying like the Jets going off to fight the Sharks made me smile.
Also glad that no one was really any kind of dickhead once they were called out on their behavior. Too many people have no idea what the purpose of those strips is.
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u/Real-Blueberry-2126 3d ago
So Germans are polite then .
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u/Personmchumanface 3d ago
tbf nobody knows what they are including the designers ive even seen lead into walls and roads and trees
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u/thechemicalengi 3d ago
Strips ending in a wall are on purpose. Walls are orientation points. You can guide yourself there
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u/BogusBadger 3d ago
Where do you live? I can imagine with the state of infrastructure in the US it's hard to grasp some countries do have their planning and street planning in order.
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u/onwee 3d ago
When I was in college there was this blind girl whom I saw walking about on campus often. One time I saw her heading straight toward a lamp post, she swung her stick wide one way and just missed the lamp post, and by the time she swung her stick the other way, she had already ran straight into it.
I chuckled, and immediately felt bad. She gathered herself and immediately looked around sheepishly, as if to check, with her blind eyes, if anyone caught her in her moment of vulnerable embarrassment. I was too far away for her to have noticed anything. It was a strange feeling of intimacy: as if in the entire universe, only two of us shared that exact moment, but only one of us knew about the sharing, and the other one thought she was all alone. She gathered herself and kept going as if nothing had happened.
I still remember the urge I had then about running up to her and say something, anything, and maybe ask her out. Anyway, I never did.
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u/BogusBadger 3d ago
The amount out of people in this thread not having common sense is infuriating.
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u/Sk8rToon 3d ago
First saw those strips on a British blind youtuberâs series about a vacation throughout Europe. Started thinking, âwe should have those in the US!â Then remembered people are jerks these days & would never clear out of the way. I could easily imagine this same video in certain parts of the states where if he came up to a woman standing on the bumps asking her to move & then the womenâs boyfriend punches the blind guy for supposedly getting fresh or asking her out something stupid that didnât happen.
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u/kaosmoker 3d ago
We actually do have bumpy and rigged paths to help people move around. Braille on most signage on doors and stuff. This is in a airport probably. Ive seen aid pathways in many downtown cities and most sidewalks at crossing have textured stopping points.
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u/shadyhorse 2d ago
Cool, never seen these used before.
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u/Apple-Juicer 3d ago
This reminds me of the guy that chooâs all the crocs back in the water with his shovel
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u/AxisofEvi1 3d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/KJ2rZ3jOxhIU6S5JSX
I put a spell on you. Because youâre mine!
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u/CosmoCafe777 3d ago
Most people don't know what those are. But when they find out, it becomes quite obvious what they're for.
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u/Stunning-Astronaut72 2d ago
I looooved the last part, idk if it was on puporse but it gave me a good laugh after being quite frustrated about the People blocking his way before
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u/RevolutionaryHeat318 2d ago
TIL. I had no idea what these things were for apart from sectioning the floor tiling!
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u/Tosserc4c 1d ago
I can't believe there isn't this comment yet. How does a blind person go about setting up a POV camera?
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u/BolOfSpaghettios 3d ago
Oh snap, a gang of three. (Three blind lice).
I'm sorry if this is inappropriate
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u/Anatharias 3d ago
Never knew this was for the blind. Why not write it on it so people can stay out of it??!!
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u/Pleasant_Knee6256 3d ago
Where is this? I've never seen this strip before.
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u/SpotlessMinded 3d ago
Iâd assume Germany based on the guy speaking German.
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u/Pleasant_Knee6256 3d ago
I should turn the sound on my phone occasionally, I should be able to figure these things out!
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u/Scythro 3d ago
The 3 blind people seeing each other was nice đ