[nfbwatlk] Curious People

[Jedi]

Karl,

I think it has a lot to do with the fact that blindness is just so visible,
and it feels like so many people just don't bother to see past the cane or
dog.

I remember this one time I went to Homecoming, and this was before I made it
a habit to wear dark glasses for light sensitivity issues. Anyway, I'd
checked my cane into the coat check so I could dance with my date. As my
date and I walked to the dance floor, I was shocked to have people tell me
that they didn't recognize me without my cane.

Respectfully Submitted

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:48 PM
To: NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Curious People

Gary, your comment about sighted people thinking we all know each other 
reminds me of a slightly different problem.  Sighted people actually think 
that we, ARE, everybody else.
I jumped on my regular bus one morning, headed to work.  A new driver was at

the controls.  "Hey" he greeted me, "Where's your dog?"
"'scuse me?" I said, "I don't have a dog, just my trusty old cane."
"Well, what are you doing out here in the South End, anyway?"
"I live out here, and I've been riding this bus for several years now."
He never did believe me.  Later a fellow some of you might remember named Ed

Foscue, came up to me and said that he'd had a rather strange conversation 
with one of his bus drivers.  Seems the fellow saw him in Renton, without 
his dog.  And he wondered why Ed denied that it was him.
Now I am over six feet tall, and in those days I was a bit on the slim side.

Ed was short and a bit on the heavy side.  Oh yes, he was about 20 years 
older than me, too.

Carl Jarvis 

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