[nfbwatlk] Curious People

[Robert Sellers]

Mike,

I, too, have been confused with you. I'm not sure who I feel more sorry for,
you or me? (grin)

Bob 

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Mike Freeman
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:10 PM
To: NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
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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