Category: Getting to Know You
So I thought I'd start a fun little chain for us to get all the faildom off our chests. I've had many, but this is one that just happened this morning that I felt compelled to share.
Disclaimer: Sorry for the TMI, but most of you don't know me anyway so I have no shame. Well...almost.
Ladies, you know that sometimes antibiotics can give you what my mom has nicknamed the yeasty beasties. Well, I was really sick this winter, and my doctor gave me those giant orange horse pills that you have to break in half or else choke and die. Those about did me in. So she gave me one of those yeast-killing pills that stays in your system for seven days, as well as a topical cream, just in case the former remedy didn't keep me out in the clear. It honestly wasn't that bad at all, but because of how strong the antibiotics were, we wanted to play it safe.
Well, I've kept the remains of the stuff ever since, just in case of a rainy day. Recently, I bought a dollar tube of toothpaste with baking soda in it that happens to be about the same size. somehow, I've narrowly evaded confusing the two, but this morning, I woke up around four and stayed up, so I guess I wasn't thinking straight. You can predict what happened, but I'm going to tell it to you anyway.
Now, I don't know how you blindos get your toothpaste onto your toothbrush, but as long as the tube is mine, I have found that squirting a little onto my finger or my tongue has sufficed and been much less messy than squeezing a glob of it onto my toothbrush. So, of course, I made this maneuver and stopped just in time. Something didn't smell quite right--or taste quite right, either, for that matter. I was about to brush my teeth with Vagisil!
Hahaha, hey cooooool ...
One time, I was putting together a salad and wanted onion powder; instead, I grabbed the jar of metamucil and just about made a metamucil salad, but like you, something didnt smell right so paid closer attention to what I was doing.
Lol!
To post one, man, you have more guts than I'll probably ever have for putting that out there! :p
Anyway, today, in fact, I was tryin to open up a can of ravvioli (however you spell it), and instead, I ended up parcially opening up a can of I have no idea what! But by the smell, and the fact that it seemed more liquidy than usual, I could tell it wasn't what I was looking for. Not really that funny, I know.
Also, I can't even tell you how many times I've attempted to talk to someone, and they weren't where I thought they would be, so instead I ended up talking to things like walls, doors, etc. :P
I've tried talking to people who weren't where I thought they were more times than I can count. I have also bumped into furniture and apologized to it, thinking it was a person.
I have so done both of those lmaooooo :D
No worries, I apologize to Trash Cans, furniture, you name it (absent-mindedly of course), but I didn't think they were people pryor to bumping into them. :d
ah, bllind moments got to love em!! lol I was making tator tot casserole. lol well got it all done and the hubby and i sat down to eat to find instead of tator tots I had put meatballs in. yuck. hubby ate it, but i didn't think it was so good! lol
Try thinking a person is talking to you, but in reality they are talking to a friend on a sell phone! Happened to me many times!
Grrr the cell phone thing. The most embarrassing thing is when you keep talking to the person but he or she is in the process of leaving the room. He or she hears you and comes running back in ... what did you say? You feel like saying, forget it it's old now! I am sure I will think of some better ones, as I know there are many, but I'll just mention the bottle of sour formula I spilled on the floor last night from its precarious perch on the counter.
i've talked to walls. and i've also talked to my guidedog too. smiles.
Love these posts!
I have done most of these things also.
The story I want to share is, a few years ago I was getting ready to have a colonoskipy.
My husband went to the drug store and got me the things I needed for the night before. He accidently picked up some sapositories instead of the pills. Yes, I swallowed the sapositories
It is embarrasing to tell, but your stories made me think of it.
My husband was so worried about it. He called the clinic I was going to and asked if swallowing the sapositories would hurt me. Everything turned out just fine!!
Sorry about the spelling!
Big grin!
So this is more of a sighty moment I guess, but funny. So littlebre and I met at a camp years before either of us joined the zone. She is from a town 2 and a half hours away from where I was from. We used to see each other from time to time. We are both generally around a sighted population more than blind, and in my case I used to have sight. So one of us would ask a question like "where is this etc" and the other would point right there then be like woops i forgot you can't see. lol
so as some of you will know, I am not totally blind. In some of my classes, especially in those which have more than 200 students in, I would put my hand up to answer a question or make a comment. the prof would then say, yes, and I guess she is pointing at the person whom she picks who will talk first. well, I thought she meant me and I would just start talking and the other person would start talking as well and the prof would be like, oh I meant her and I would feel so incredibly embarrassed.
@glori: That, is, priceless.
Emperor: I normally just wait and they have to clarify whom they're speaking to. Lol
Though I have also done most of those things, the one that always gets me is if someone is talking to me. If I don't sense another person around me and I am sure it isn't the local half of a cell phone conversation I answer. I don't if I know there is somebody close enough to be addressed even if I can't detect them. Unfortunately, if they were talking to me, it is embarrassing to think the person thinks me rude and having to have a friend explain I am blind and didn't know they were talking to me. Now, if not sure, I just ask, are you talking to me, I can't see so don't know.
Some times when i am out for a walk people toot there horns and I don't know who they are tooting t. It is better if the driver calls out. Some times they do that as well.
Aha! I’ve done some of those apologized to inanimate objects and also talking to inanimate things.. Yeah, I have done the talking to a friend who was talking on a cell phone and interrupted people talking on a cellphone no idea that they were talking on one. And yeah, I have done that too answered a question the same time as someone else because I thought it was me or volunteered and got up because I thought the teacher has chosen me. How about the time when they say you yes, and I don’t respond, and they say, yeah, I meanyou and I am like oh me? Yeah erm. Um, ahem right. Haha!
Oh how about tripping over walls that you knew clearly was there but was generally thinking to hard?
I once put salt instead of sugar in my coffee then after drinking all of it realized why it tasted so awful. I was like wow, what sort of new coffee amI drinkin’?
And then I love the cane fights for a second because you are two inches in front of another blind person, and then you realize and is like oh right that’s so and so and he’s right there in front of me, maybe I should stop so I don’t run in to him, ahem, yes. Or once a few times actually neither of us could stop in time and we crashed in to each other our foreheads colliding.
Totally have done the colision thing. And yeah, it's almost a given that when we're certain we're being called on, we're not; and when we aren't sure, the spotlight is on us. Lolol
Love these, they're all great. And, of course, I've never done any of them. (ha ha sure.)
Bob
Probably done all of them, save the salt in the coffee.
It's always hard to tell in crowds whether someone is talking to you or not, and, if so, are they just in passing or do they really want to talk. Pretty easy to miss in all those instances.
Leo, you licked Vagisil? XDDD
So my friend Devin created a Twitter account for telbing funny CP stories, and I decided to make one for us blindos. Follow if you wish, and if you want to share stories of your own, just tag me: @BlindieProblems
guess would have to count that one out as well.
Was thinking the inevitable say excuse me to, or ask directions from, a coat rack. Or walk into someone's office, seeing the person looks to be busy so just set their laptop down for them and leave without saying anything. Or thinking someone's talking to you when they're not.
Which brings up a good point: Amongst the blind, if you can get more than a few in one place, like a convention, how is that sort of nonverbal communication handled anyway? Probably some of this isn't blind vs. sighted, but could happen between two blind people also.
Several times I've entered elevators and someone says "Hey, how's it going?"
Before you can respond (if you are lucky) they say "Yeah, I just called to ... "
I really hate cell phones.
Bob
I wish board posts had like buttons. Hahahahaha
Well, to answer your question, I've been to a few of those conferences, and besides which my family is half blind, so when you put a bunch of blindies in a room, it gets pretty hectic/interesting. Lots of awkward moments hahahaha.
hmm.... yeah, that was actually not me, that was my dad who handed me the salt hhahaha! but yeah, the other day I've been called everything from jessica to rebecca and those to especially, don't ask me why. but anyway, this person said hi rebecca and when they don't know me well that tends to come out and I was an idiot that day for some stupid reason and responded and turns out they were talking to a girl named rebecca on the phone I think. I was the only one around so....
How about when you've been gone all day, forget your window is open, and strip, then take your time to get dressed again? I'm sure that if anyone was hanging out in the dorm's backyard, they were wondering, "Why is this chick parading around her room naked?" Sooooooooooo embarrassing! I don't even know why I bothered to cover up when I finally realized I needed to close the window. I might as well have just opened the glass and shouted, "Oops! I hope you enjoyed the show...this won't be happening again." Except that it just might.
@BlindieProblems is sad and lonely and still needs commiserators...I mean followers. ;)
I've had loads of little solos in choir before thanks to knowing songs from memory, losing said memory, and coming in a measure too early or loud when it's supposed to be a soft part. I once thought the director's hand sign for a key change was the sign for the choir to come in and thankfully caught myself at the first consonant before I could solo a full word! Hmm, another is wearing plaid and stripes together because I didn't know my fashion rules. Oh, let's not forget the three incidents of sprained ankles from not using my cane properly and missing a step on a flight of stairs. In one of those incidents, I thought a group of wide brick stairs was a wheelchair ramp and sprained both ankles at once!
i have offen called my mom honey. and my boy friend dad. when i was vary sleepy.- grin.
@Amethyst: Hahahahaaha, and then you had to actually use a wheelchair and ramp. Hahahahahahah
Well, this one wasn't exactly my fault, but one time during my junior year of high school, someone was taking a plate of mashed potatoes to a teacher, dropped them, and left them for a custodian to pick up. I, of course, wasn't aware of this, and I slipped on it, thinking it was a piece of notebook paper or something. I don't have the best balance because of both my sight and hearing loss, although I don't remember struggling too much with the latter back then. Anyway, regardless of the coordination deficit, I'm usually pretty good at catching myself from falling. Not this time. I slid down the hall so that I was nearly parallel to the ground, my skirt riding waaaaay up (we had to wear uniforms). When I finally recovered and saw what I had slipped on, I have to admit I wasn't as amused then as I am now, but I did smirk at the fact that the janitor would have to clean up an even bigger mess than that TA left behind.
This happened TODAY! I went to work, and everything was fine. Go home for lunch, come back to work, take off my jacket, and the static electricity causes my skirt to stick to my nylons... which is bad enough.
Then a hour later I go to the bathroom... and realize I have a HUGE rip down the back of my skirt! No one told me or anything, so I am hoping no one noticed, but OMG!
I almost brushed my teeth with Bengay once LOL.
Lol Musician!
And I feel stupid, but what's Bengay, Bryan?
ok. i've spoke to my guide dog. i comsider her my friend. she's a women's best. friend.
We've all done the talking to someone who wasn't there, or was on the phone and we didn't know it.
Well I've also done the opposite: I was returning a woman's laptop to her office and, hearing her writing plus everything was very quiet, I assumed she was on the phone taking notes. So, I slipped in, set the laptop down, and left quickly.
The story that got out, though, was of an aloof, uncaring, "one of those computer people" who "shoved my laptop onto my desk and ran off, as though he was putting down food for a wild animal!"
The lesson from that one, and countless others: It basically doesn't matter what we do, in the minds of some we will always be wrong. So just do the best you can, take a crack at it, give it a good run, and leave the rest to the gossips / easily upset / less competent.
But as to Kate's comment about the skirt, many a man may sympathize: what man hasn't left the fly open once or twice? And then when politely told so, the only thing going through your mind is "I wonder how long it's been like that!"
A few years ago, My Mum asked me to make her Coffee. Well the Sugar and the Salt are right next to each other, instead of putting in Sugar, I took the Salt bag thinking it's the Sugar and well let's just say, I had to drink that "Salty coffee" and make her a proper coffee.
I thought about this thread this morning when I had one of these blind moments.
I had just brued myself a yummy K-cup of coffee. I went to the fridge and grabbed the milk, poured it in, prepared myself for that soul soothing first taste, took a big swig. And, tasted. Wait for it? Wait for it? Orange juice! Blech! Just so you'll know, orange juice and coffee do not a delicious drink make. Not to self, always check by smell when there are twin gallon jugs in the fridge.
LOL, that's similar to my Blind moment :)
I've poured juice over cereal before. Ugh!
Oh man, that'd be a nasty surprise.
I love drinking a nice cold glass of milk in the mornings, and I've mixed up the milk and the buttermilk more times than I can count lol. You'd think I'd learn to smell before I drink the first time.
hahahahahahah there are a lot of funny stories here and some embarrassing ones too and I have quite a few of my own so here goes, I'd be walking while in town and I hear a person say hi and I think they were talking to me so I reply but no there talking to some one else.
I hate when people are driving there cars and toot as I think it is at me.
I always talk to the cat and to the dog I had too, I love talking to the animals, smiles.
Numerous amount of times I have walked into things, tripped over things even once when I was younger and was in a mainstreamed school, we had to do cross country on a farm, they had forgotten to turn the fences off and I would run straight through them as of not being able to see them and would get zapped as it was an electric fence.
I was at an NFB convention a while back in Denver, and of course, me being from a very low-altitude place, I was pretty susceptible to the headache thing. One morning I went to McDonald's and got my coffee, sat down and began to pour cream and sugar into it. I had a slight headache that day, and when I get headaches, I'm not on my game. So, I started pouring the stuff in, and noticed that something was oozing down the side of my cup. I realized I'd forgotten to take the lid off and had a bit of a clean-up to do. Luckily nobody was around me, but I was like, "I hope the hell nobody saw that!"
woops and once when carrying a tray which had food as well as a milkshake on it and I only could carry it with one hand as I had my dog with me at the time and the drink fell off the tray and onto the floor and my dog tried drinking it but he didn't get a chance to, smiles.
I notice when i'm tired more accidents can occur like I was in my room and was heading to the bath room and was in my room, the door was closed and while trying to open in I walk into it while closing it, lol, smiles.
Well here are a few blind moments I thought I would share with you! :) One was from sleep deprivation. My boyfriend and I had been talking for hours every night, and I was very happy. Black prince is awesome by the way, and he makes me feel amazing being hisone and only love! But I digress. I am now attending The Louisiana Center For The Blind, and we have to get up at six am every day to get to school. Well one of those magical nights where him and I talked for hours, I foregot to eat dinner. So at four am, I bolted out of bed, and instead of getting the turkey I wanted, I ran straight into my living room wall in my apartment. Cursing at my lack of remembering that lights help, I turned one on and I made my turkey while getting some ice for the bump now on my head. After I ate, I took some multron and went back to sleep happily thinking of my prince. Another blind moment, was when I made hamburger helper, all by myself in my home management class at LCb. I was all ready to take it home, and I had two containers of it in my wall mart bag to carry it back to my apartment. But unfortunately before the bag idea came into my head, I thought I could carry the three containers without a bag in my arms. But unfortunately, the entire contents of my third container fell onto the floor, and I was so sad. I still had my other containers, but my teacher's disappointment in me made me feel ashamed. "Didn't the idea of a wall mart bag come to you? This is disgusting. What were you thinking? "I am so sorry, I foregot. "That doesn't matter, if you stopped daydreaming about your love life so much, and being all smiley in the morning, things like this would not happen if you concentrated more on the stove, and less on your boyfriend. And I did concentrate completely when I made it , just so you all know, my mind didn't wander. This was the first time I walked out of this class, with my eyes down cast to the ground, feeling ashamed of my blindess. I felt very small that day, and I felt like I was failing. It took many of my friends and my boyfriend to convince me to stay, and to remind me of the accomplishments I did there, and to not focus on the mistakes I made. So each day now, I say to myself, this is a new day. Fresh with no mistakes in it. And ever since I started saying that, I have been succeeding at every thing I do, and feel more positive in all I say do and think no matter what anyone says around me. Did these kinds of things ever happen to any of you?
awe hugs and i'm sure we all have had similar things happen but the good thing is you are being positive so good on you, smiles.
Instructors should...not speak that way to students, but okay.
well, my story would look quite different. i have been growing since my childhood with blinds and i've noticed many of them responding while one is speaking in phone or with others. So i decided not to make that mistake ever. So generally i speak only people start conversating with me by calling my name.
This created problem many times! When somebody generally strangers point towards me and ask something, i end up thinking as if they may be asking somebody and not me. this happened with teachers at class, with strangers while travelling, while somebody ask any help while iam going on road etc.
well, my story would look quite different. i have been growing since my childhood with blinds and i've noticed many of them responding while one is speaking in phone or with others. So i decided not to make that mistake ever. So generally i speak only people start conversating with me by calling my name.
This created problem many times! When somebody generally strangers point towards me and ask something, i end up thinking as if they may be asking somebody and not me. this happened with teachers at class, with strangers while travelling, while somebody ask any help while iam going on road etc.
I don't know if you know but you posted the same thing twice and I have had people saying hello and I think there saying it to me and I will reply back but then I notice they weren't talking to me, lol, smiles.
This was a few weeks ago.
I was walking with my cane, just doing my own thing, when I hit something that was moving. It felt like a shoe, which made me think it was a person. So, I apoligised. Turns out it was a car.
lol, woops and the other day when walking in town and I heard this person go "hi" and so I replied "hi" back but then I noticed he wasn't talking to me, he was actually in a conversation on the phone.
smiles.