A Bar for Thoughtful Loners and The Deaf
A bar or club with music so loud that it’s physically impossible to communicate with another person through speech. I know there are clubs that come close to this, but this one would be so loud that even speaking directly into someone’s ear drum wouldn’t work.
Plus, the music is so unmelodic - it’s basically noise - that it’s pointless to try to dance to it. So everyone in the bar is paralyzed in place, unable to talk or dance. If you’re an optimist, they’re “liberated” from those obligations.
You just have to sit there, looking at people and/or thinking. If you do want to order a drink, you have to write down your order (you could use notes to communicate with your fellow clubbers as well). Or, if you know sign language, you can order it that way, since the entire staff will be fluent in ASL.
Actually, this would be an ideal bar for the deaf since the noise wouldn’t interfere with sign language, and hearing people used to talking in bars would tend to stay away.
If you wanted to make the bar deaf-only without violating civil rights laws, you could make the music not only undanceable but unlistenable, the sound wave equivalent of a knife in the ears. It would be like an electric invisible fence that keeps dogs in the yard, only it would keep all but the most masochistic hearing people out.
3 years ago