[nfbwatlk] Curious People

[Jim]

Well Mike,  I can safely say that you and I look nothing alike, so there should be no problem in distinguishing us.
After all, I'm the tall and handsome one people will notice first...if you and I are seen together.

Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Curious People


>I can't count the number of times people have called me Bob (Bob Sellers 
> and I look exactly alike, dontchya know) or Jim (as in Jim Eccles).
> 
> But while I generally laugh at this sort of thing and tell people that I 
> know all blind folks look alike and the people are generally so sheepish 
> that the problem solves itself, I can't quarrel with the immediate 
> reaction that blindness is sufficiently obvious that people don't think 
> before they open their mouths. That and they generally don't expect to 
> encounter more than one blind person in a given geographical area and it 
> throws them for a loop that we might actually be out and about.
> 
> Mike
> 
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Carl Jarvis
>  To: NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
>  Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:48 PM
>  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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