I gaslighted an entire city by pretending to be blind
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I was a pizza delivery driver in a suburb of Chicago, Il. I decided I wanted to be a fake blind guy because why not its fun to mess with people once and awhile. So here is what I did.<br><br>I went out and bought some sunglasses that had shaded plastic covers over the eyes kind of like a blind persons glasses but not the sunshades that are clear on the bottom half.<br><br>Every time I was out delivering I had on those stupid glasses. I even wore them inside the store so that everyone would recognize me by my stupid glasses. For the first week or two people would give me directions. Go two blocks down, take a right, go one block take a left and your destination will be on your right. I would say "okay got it" like a total blind guy. Then just go straight there.<br><br>In the second week I would have people write the directions down for me in addition to telling me. I would pretend I couldn't read them and have them read them out loud to me. Again I wouldn't even look at the paper. I would just take off in my car and drive straight to my destination.<br><br>The final week I would just show the piece of paper with the address on it to people on the street and they would give me directions.<br><br>It was amazing. By the time I moved away from that city some people thought I had a map of the city in my head because every time I had to deliver there I could drive right to the destination without saying a word. Extremely entertaining. Made me kind of sad to leave the city.<br><br>Edit - i feel like I have to clarify something here. I didn't fake being blind to deceive people that I wasn't able to see. I did it to see how my interactions with people would change.<br><br>I have been a blind pizza delivery driver, I have been a disabled pizza delivery driver, and I have been a normal pizza delivery driver. The disabled one receives the best treatment out of the three. That's what I wanted to see, and it was very interesting.<br><br>Giving directions to a blind person is entertaining because they will do exactly what you tell them to do without question. Giving directions to a disabled person is entertaining for the same reasons, except you don't have to be quite as specific. For example you could tell a disabled person " Turn at the stop light" whereas a blind person you would have to be more specific and say turn in .2 miles. Or instead of talking in miles you could talk in seconds. "Proceed for 23 seconds and turn right" or something like that.<br><br>Giving directions to a normal person is bullsht because they question everything and don't listen. "Turn in .2 miles" "How many seconds is that" "Well its 23 seconds" "what street am I turning onto" you tell them the street name "what are the cross streets" Jesus Christ you disabled?
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