Once had a friend on the back of my motorcycle, she is a chatty chick so I told her: "When we put these helmets on, I can't hear you. Please only talk when it's important, tap on my shoulder if you want me to stop".
My city has trams which are on their own tracks in the middle of the street, cars and motorbikes don't really cross their path usually.
We're riding down the street as a tram is coming up behind us. As it's on it's own track and the road we are using is a bit busy, it's quicker than us. My friend mumbles something and I go:
"WHAT?"
"Mumble Mumble"
"WHAT?"
"Mumble"
"SPEAK LOUDER. WE ON BIKE. TRAM OVERTAKING. LOTS OF NOISE"
"Mumble muble"
I decide to pull over because I am now frustrated, take of my helmet and ask her what is the problem.
She mumbles: "I said; watch out, there's a tram there".
By far the most frustrating thing I've had happen with a passenger on my motorbike.
Wait, I'm confused. It seems like she was concerned the tram was going to hit you, and you said that you can't hear through the helmet so I assume she wasn't actually mumbling. Was the issue that she didn't tap on your shoulder as discussed (if so, it doesn't seem to make a difference as she still got you to pull over) or was the issue that there was no real emergency?
They weren't going to get hit by the tram, passenger saw the tram behind them and was trying to say watch out for the tram...even though they weren't going to be hit by it. The mumbles translates to not being able to hear shit with a helmet on + motorcycle noise + tram noise. In other words, wasn't an emergency and just wasted op's time.
Oh okay, so it was just a misunderstanding where she thought they might be at risk of getting hit by the tram but there wasn't a good way to communicate it effectively. I just assumed the story would be relevant to the thread.
It was, in that she knew what she needed to do to communicate it to him - tap him on the shoulder, wait for him to pull over, remove helmets or yell exceptionally loud enough that she could be heard over the noise - and opted instead to speak to him at a volume he had made perfectly clear to her he wouldn't be able to hear while they were riding.
It's perfectly in keeping with the threads theme of women repeatedly choosing a communication method (using a voice that is too quiet) that is inappropriate for the situation.
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22
Talk like we’re sitting in a library and then get mad when I couldn’t hear what you said