Category: Getting to Know You
hey, i was just curious about what embarrassing blind moments that some of you have had.
mine is when i'm talking to someone, and they go away without saying anything, and here i am looking dumb talking to myself.
Yeah. Been there, done that. When I was young, I used to take a sick pleasure in setting blind folks up to do that, too. God has had his share of revenge on me, however. <g>.
Having said that, I'm remembering the time at a party when I was wearing a suit. I was sitting on this low sofa with a lap tray of food, and spilled it all over myself.
Speaking of parties, the lady who is now my wife and I were at my brother's house. I was sipping this glass of wine. I'd put it down, talk a few minutes, and sip. He must have thought it would be fun to get his blind brother wasted in front of his girlfriend, and my mother. Well, I thought I was only drinking one glass of wine, when I must have had four or five. My speech was fine, and the thought process was fine. I went to get up to get something to eat, and I couldn't move.
Lou
when you run your head in to a metal object and it rings loudly, in a library!
I was in search of an establishment. I entered the correct one, and asked someone for directions.
Walking along, not paying attention and run into the traffic light pole along the sidewalk. I did that and looked around, to see who was around, even though I couldn't see. I shooked my head and walked off.
Last year, I had a friend staying with me for a couple days and I thought I'd be a nice guy and give her some milk for her cerial in the morning. So I pull out the jug and I gave it to her so she could do it herself, since I didn't know how much she liked. A few seconds later I heard her start to laugh. ...can you guys see where this is going? Turns out I had grabbed orange juice instead! So I took the bowl away from her, poored it out and washed it off and we did it again, this time making sure it really was milk. So it all turned out ok, but I was definitely embarassed.
*laughs* Those were pretty funny, especially that last one. Two specific embarrassing but funny moments I've had that also involved another blind friend of mine were these. One was where she and I were at school in the office where our Braille materials were stored, and she was offering me a seat. She thought that I had found the chair, but I had missed it and ended up on the floor. Another time, that friend was at my house and we were going out a side door. I figured that since she'd been there several times, it was alright to go ahead of her down the stairs. Well, for that little porch, it's like a square, and when you get out the door, the stairs are just on the right, the room with the water heater is on the left, and there is a drop straight ahead as there is no railing. So , you could guess what happened to my friend; she kept going straight and landed on the cement driveway standing up. When my mom, sister, and dad saw, they were worried and teased a little at what a mean friend I was and asked if she was alright. But I guess she was because she was just laughing. *smile* We still talk about that one sometimes. *smile*
Some other times were when my friend and I would be walking and not paying attention. One was where I ran into one of those metal airconditioners at school, another was when I hit a big trashcan that was just outside of a classroom we were wanting to go to, and another time, I had knocked a sign down the stairway and the policeman came right away to ask if we were alright. We said yes, but it was still funny. Also, at the malls, I'd always seemed to run into and sometimes tip over those tall signs they put outside the stores before my mobility instructor could wanr me about them. We'd always end up laughing about it, and she'd usually bring that up as well. *smile*
I've had all those blind moments. I've nearly slapped in to a couple of lamp posts when out on Mobility sessions, I was on work experience and the person I was talking to had left the room, Cringe! Groping round the middle of the table for a bottle of Ketchup or the salt and pepper mills, I've nearly picked up someone's glass of wine, the vase of flowers or candles which were in the centre of the table as deccorations. You name them, I've had all of those blind moments really.
Great topic.
I once poured dish washing soap on my pancakes, thinking it was syrup.
I've talked to (friendly) people on elevators only to find out they were on a cell phone and not talking to me at all (I HATE CELL PHONES).
I once took a blind girl I was trying to impress into a shoe store thinking it was the eating establishment next door. Plus, I tried to order for both of us. The salesman thought I was crazy and the girl thought I was stupid. I think they were both right.
Bob
lol. i've had a few of those. i've been talking to people and they've walked away. when i was at college and i knew the route to the supermarket, i was on my way back, not really paying full attention and i smacked into a lamp post dropping the bags of shopping, i could have cried, but laugh about it now. once, a friend was staying with me and she wanted a hot chocolate, so, i found what i thought was the sachets and, it turned out to be sugar free lemon and jelly powder. euwwwwwwwwww.
I was playing for a coffee house in college. The guy I was performing with and I were at the table with a bunch of friends. I was taking potato chips out of a bowl. The dip was in the same kind of bowl. Somebody switched the two. I had fingers full of the stuff just as they were calling us up to play.
Lou
I've talked to someone not there, apologized to doors and other inanimate objects, talking to someone who was on the phone, pouring orange joice on the cerial, etc. lol. gotta love the blind moments!
apologize to doors? lol, poor brooke
Bob, I apologize for asking, but how could you have mistaken dish soap for pancake syrup? Did you have such a small kitchen that the two had to be stored next to one another, or did the syrup you bought end up being so thin it could be mistaken for soap or what? Either that or the coffee, assuming you drink it, hadn't kicked in.
Probably the coffee.
Actually, I took the syrup out of the fridge, sat it down and picked up the dish washing soap.
My only defense is that they were both in plastic bottles, and I didn't notice that the syrup had warmed up quickly.
Bob
Hmm too many to mention I do recall 1 that has become legend with my climbing partners. We were camping in Glencoe in beautiful weather,and as with climbers we had been celebrating. I wandered off to relieve myself, and couldn't find the way back..Donnie found me standing by the road bollock naked, at 2am, yelling at the top of my voice to people giving directions that's no bloody good I can't see!!!
I bet none of you guys have had this one
When I could see little I use to pat people an the arm and as I went blind I started pat thier titty. Now that I am total I don't do that any more. But! I have a deaf blind friend that I help some times and When I grab her arm I some times touch her booby I hate that I have had all those yall have too.
well, that would fall under the topic of things you can get away with on purpose because you're blind. lol
frequency, good topic for a post. in fact, the more i think of it, great topic.
Goblin, that was funny.
Bob
Bob and Frequency, I agree. That happens more often than not, and seriously, even when it isn't it becomes our fault.
blake, that does sound like an interesting topic...
although i do feel uncomfortable when it happens to me, even if it is an accident, which for some reason in my case, most of the time its not
I was nearly arrested try explaning my behaviour to the constabulary
The most embarrasing moment I can think of was when I was at the hospital visiting my grandmother and I ran into a pole and apologized to it and everyone in the room burst into laughter. I admit it was pretty funny.
O god, I've just remembered another blind moment inn Waterstones. I went in with mum to buy some CDs and my right arm/shoulder brushed past something. I heard mum gasp, there was this almighty big bang and mum let go of me. I asked what she was doing and she told me I'd just knocked all the shopping baskets flying and one of the assistants helped her pick them up. O god, I was so helpless with laughter and embarrassment, I haven't forgotten it to this day. Another time, we were in Boston, Massachusetts a few years back and mum pushed me backwards in to a taxi and nearly had my eye out on the edge of the open door. Ouwhwhwhch! That bloody hurt.
good stories all.
Bob
As I was reading some of the replies I remembered another moment I had just recently. My brother had opened the door of his van and I thought it was facing in the other direction. So I calmly started to climb in and sit down. As it turned out I landed on the floor. They all got a big kick out of that little event. They haven't let me live it down yet. I probably won't live it down for a long time. Those blind moments can sure lighten up any situation don't you think? It keeps us from taking ourselves so seriously. Donna (djmom)
I got an imbarrassing one, but and I know that no one else will admit it, but I will say it.
caught masturbating by college roomy.
wow! thanks for, um, admitting that?
Well mine's quite tame, but still, it was embarrassing as hell!
Yesterday I went to see this band, who were, to be honest, in my humble opinion, quite boring! So I commented to my Dad, "I don't like the band much", upon which time I was informed quietly that the guy sitting across from me talking to Dad's gf was the lead guitarist! *shudders*. He commented later, as well! Luckily he didn't seem to take it too much to heart, but still! Ain't it times like that you wish you could see?
red socks person, everyone has been caught doing that at one time or another, sighted or blind etc.
I remember this one guy was trying to tell me a place to sit down, and well, let's just say I ended up sitting in his lap. Lol, I was so embarrassed, cuz I really liked the guy, and well, I really didn't mean to sit on his lap, but there I went, sitting on it anyways.
Then there was the time I was getting some tea and I meant to get sugar packets, but the pepper was in the same packets as the sugar, so I ended up putting pepper in my tea, it was really gross. And I was so embarrassed after that.
Ok, here goes, may as well join in.
I was waiting at the train station for a member of staff to come and give me a hand. Well, when he arived I bent down to pick up my bag and as I did my Guide Dog did a very loud Fart! The member of staff laughed, and said "I bet you're gonna try and blame the dog for that"!
On the subject of making comments about people when they're around, I once said to my notetaker in my first year of my degree, "I wonder if we'll actually have a law seminar this week". The tutor had been off for several of the previous seminars so they hadn't gone ahead. Just as I finished saying that he tutor said "Yes, we will be". i'd not even known he was there1 lol
I think this was a great topic idea, some real funny stories coming out! Nice one!
lol Jes. Suuuuuure that was a mistake...
I happen to be quite opinionated, and have had to learn since losing my vision to make sure I know who is around before opening my mouth to bitch about someone.
I'ave also had multiple experiences of talking to people who have walked away and talking to someone who was on the phone when I thought they were talking to me.
Some of my most embarrassing moments happened when I still had vision but was losing it and didn't want to admit it. On a job interview, the reception area was behind a glass wall with a glass door. I humiliated myself trying to find the damn door. Another time I was waiting for a friend to pick me up. She was running late as usual. I was looking out the door and saw a dark car pull up. My friend had a dark blue car, so I headed down the walk and got in. Only then did I realize it was not my friend. The lady behind the wheel, however, seemed to have a good sense of humor. Another time while shopping for clothes, I saw a pretty purple blouse and reached out to touch it. You guessed it...it was being worn by a woman standing by the clothes rack.
it was a mistake, Christopher!
I always try to look at people when I'm talking to them, to show that I'm listening to them and paying attention. It's a little annoying when they silently move in a different direction and I'm talking to where they were, only to find that now they're to my left or something.
Yep I've done that, too, quite a lot, been talking to someone and have not realised they've gone somewhere, that is.
I've done many of the things I've seen posted here. But I had forgotten about the time I got into a car I thought was my rider's only to find out it was her husband's. Of course, he understood having been around blind people for a good while. Thank God he has a sense of humor.
o man these are seriously funny.
I love this topic.
Jdmom and Buckeye Fan reminded me of one time when I was on a mobility lesson at a rehab center.
The instructors always parked the car in a spot where it would be difficult to identify and our lesson wasn't considered complete until we were seated in the car.
I finished my lesson early one day, strolled back to the car (at least I thought it was), and crawled in the back.
A voice from the front seat said, "aren't you in the wrong car?" and I thought it was my mobility instructor trying to be funny, so I said "yep, probably am, but I'm tired." and I promptly stretched and laid down in the back seat.
Then I heard my instructor's voice from outside the car say, "Where's bob, he's not back yet."
They had parked our car next to another car with similar markings. Boy was I embarrassed. I appologized profusely and the poor guy thought it was funny too, fortunately.
Bob
Thanks Bob. Now I don't feel so dumb. I thought for sure I was the only person who had done such a thing. donna
This is a great topic, I can identify with many of the stories!
How many of you have tried to get into those little cars on amusement rides facing the wrong way; I detest those things!
I once put washing-up detergent in a cup of coffee rather than milk. My mum used to make up the detergent in a plastic milk bottle from a sachel of concentrate and water. My wife (gf at that time) innocently put the milk bottle in the fridge after dinner and I used it in my coffee for breakfast.
In my mum's family there were eight siblings; seven were married and my bachelor uncle Les lived with my grandparents. For years I would visit my grandparents and mum would say to me "say hello to Uncle Les" or "say hello to Uncle Max".
One evening, when I was around 15 years old, we were driving home from a family wedding when I decided I would clear this matter up once and for all. I enquired: "mum, I thought there were eight in your family; I count nine". I named my aunts and uncles; including Max and Les. My father burst into such a belly laugh, I thought he was gonna run us off the road! You guessed it, Max was Uncle Les's nickname...
ho ydt sart drinking that coffee. lol.
At my high school graduation, we were directed how to go from our place in the audience around the podium and back when we got our diplomas. I of course went the wrong way, but everyone laughed in the good way with me and I yelled, "I'm blind, I can't help it!" LOL! In choir class in Junior High, I was walking in a weird way with my elbow bent and my arm contracted in a 90 degree angle and I was making a fist for some weird reason. My friend Lindsey walked right in front of me and I ended up punching her right under her boob! Then, there are times I embarrass myself thinking I can walk nice and straight through a doorway and end up bonking my head on the door frame face first. Nothing can beat these two though. I was at camp in 1997 and was trying to put together a cool costume for the talent show. My friend ad I were sort of lip sync-ing and doing a pantomime to Metallica's Master of Puppets, she being the puppet and I the master. I found this black body suit that had underwire support if you had big boobs like I did, but I took the underwires out because the top robe thing I wore was dark brown and kind of see through and I didn't want those who could see noticing my underwires showing. It turned out to be hell for me though because I was trying to do these back and forth conductor like hand motions with these marionette things I had made and had to keep tensing my body up because my boobs were falling out of the suit and the see through thing was coming open. Second embarrassing blind moment that can't be beaten is when Mosely was still alive. He had this habit as dogs do of scattering toys about on random places on the floor of the house. He was sitting on the floor by the couch and I knew there were papers and magazines there to make it uneven, but I thought I also saw that he was sitting on a stuffed toy of his. I reached between his legs to pull the toy out and... yeah, not a stuffed toy... something actually attached to and very dear to the poor dog! Thankfully I didn't really yank hard or anything, just went to grab it and did a "Whoa, wait a minute!" doubletake!
LOL, Bob you stole my story.. Same thing happened to me but my husband was still inside and wasn't there to rescue me when the old lady in the drivers seat panicked. I could have dropped off the face of the earth, I was trying to explain to her, she was so scared she started crying, finally my husband comes out to get in the car and realizes what is going on and comes over. LOL He asked the old woman "is this woman bothering you maam" and when she told him I was trying to hyjack her car, his laughing shocked her long enough to get her quiet to explain to her the situation.. Of course then she got silly apologetic and I had to convince her that SHE was NOT in the wrong..
Tonja
These are all great stories.
BaritonAu reminded me of one Sunday when we had some friends over for a barbecue. My friend fixed up the marinading sauce and we soaked the meat in it.
My son who was about two at the time fell asleep early and I carried him off to bed. As usual, he had to have a drink before he would go back to sleep. So I marched down to the kitchen and poured him a glass of orange juice.
I held the glass while he took a small sip. Then he began to whimper and I ask him what the matter was and he muttered "tastes bad". I smelled the orange juice and sure enough it smelled just like marinating sauce. Poor kid.
Bob
I can't say I've had most of those embarrassing blind moments, but there was one that sticks out in my memory. My friend and I were in the cinema, where there isn't a handrail to go up the stairs. I was doing fine, until I almost lost my balance and nearly ended up falling dropping everything I was carrying. Could have ended up with a serious injury I still laugh about it today.
not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but don't you love it when you're in public, and you're talking to someone, and they leave without saying a word, and you're talking and carrying a conversation with yourself. I feel so stupid everytime that happens.
When I first started at Criss Cole (the state traomomg cemter fpr tje b;omd jere.) I was still trying to get used the place and was walking through the hall cane in one hand and another hand out in front to feel anything that I came across. Long story short that hound found something what I didn't know is that it was a womans breast. Oops. After some exploration trying to figure out what it was that I was feeling the lady oh so politely said, "excuse me may I help you?" as soon as she said that I figured out what it was that I had been feeling, and my hand shot away faster than lightening. I have never been so embarrased in my life. I fell over myself trying to appologise to her assuring her that it was an accident. Lucky for me she was used to working with blind people and took it as a semi comical mis-hap.
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I used to work at cris cole and believe you me, that wasn't the first time for that to happen; and we, the staff, speculated that it wasn't always a mistake.
Bob
Believe me, it's not always an accident. Back in my blind school, a lot of the guys used to do that and claim it was. lol
I've never had that happen to me before. And the one about people walking away from you in public. God, I hate that.
Walking off the edge of the stage during a production, as i was talking/yelling (as a gynocologist) to another person....
Ouch! I hope you weren't hurt.
nah i just just got back up and kept acting :)
I probably would have done that too.
lots of things had happened... once when I was young, I was given a tray of food for lunch. thoughs little compartments had mustard, pudding, and etc. so here I am putting a spoon in to what I thaught was tha pudding and I get a mouth full of mustard... haha I still talk about that sometimes
That's not nearly as bad as dropping the lunch tray on the floor in front of the entire cafeteria. *cringes* God, that was bad.
another time was, one day while I was in school... parents were comming to visit there children's school. so here I am walking down the path ways and I had my cane out... ok so I'm walking and as I do people kept on tripping over the cane... it was imbarissing but funny at the same time... lol
I don't care if people trip over my cane.
A few times, (no not just one) I followed the wrong person other than my mom. I think they were wearing the same color and I thought they were my mom.
hmm...
yeah... that can get confusing
Ok, not going to tell anyone else's stories here, but go and pester GuitarGod1, TheOne and Damia. I know of and have wittnessed some of their stories. I once scooped up a cat that was not what it seamed, and in fact was not a cat. It was a baby fox, and I was very very lucky that it was not angry and that it's mother didn't appear from the bushes to bite me. I have many others, but they are all more or less in the same vain of what has all ready been shared. Oh, and, Goblin, that is bloody brilliant. I would have loved to have seen that. My mother once poured a can of pears, or rather strained, only the juice to exit the can, into a pot of goolosh. It actually came out quite well, she just left out the usual sugar that she adds with the salt, garlic and pepper.
Try pouring juice over your morning cereal instead of mik. That was disgustiong. The bottle for the juice felt exactly like the milk bottle so I couldn't tell them apart. lol
Let me try that again. Try pouring juice over your cereal instead of milk. That was pretty disgusting. The bottles felt exactly the same, so I couldn't distinguish the milk from the juice . Thank God, I didn't have to eat it.
Ok! Ok! Lol hhehehheheh all of your guy’s stories where very good but this might be even a little bit better or more embarrassing ok! I think I was 16 or 17 but I was at the California school for the blind and I was in my dorm room getting ready to go to school. The night before I had taken out my prosthetic eye, because I was in a rush to get it in before school. Well since it was a new thing for me I was somewhat clumsy and I dropt it down the sink. I was saying, “My eye fell down the sink! Oh! My god! My eye fell down the sink!” and I was yelling it not knowing it. But man! My house parent came in running asking what! Your eye fell down the sink. She was all freaked out. Lol, that’s not even the embarrassing part. I had to call the janitor and ask if she could come and get my eye out of the sink. The janitor asked me how it got down the sink.
There was another time while attending a public school that was also embarrassing. After a swim meet we were on the bus heading back to the school, and my eye was bothering me. I decided to rub it. As luck would have it the eye popped out. Then the kid sitting next to me started yelling, “ O my God her eye is rolling down the isle.” Luckily someone further down the bus stopped the eye, and brought it back to me. I was so embarrassed that I didn’t want to even look at anyone for a long time.
hahahahahahaha that's great! There used to be this kid at school that would pop out his eye and put it in his mouth. rofl
okay, that's not embarrassing, that's just disgusting *cringes*
One time I was at a theme park and we were getting of of a ride, and my brother didn't tell me there was a pole there. Well I hit my head so hard I fell back into the ride. man that really hurt!!
another time I was cutting my pancakes, trying to be independent, and they had put the sirup on them. Well let's say they wound up in my lap. that's just a couple. getting lost, running into poles, falling off the ski lift, oh this brings back memories!!
but the worst has to be while in college my friends would read the menu to me. Well after about two weeks, I finally said "why do they have the same soup for dinner every night?"" My friends said what do you mean, I said soup de schure and they laughed so hard, Then and only then at the age of 21, did I find out that meant soup of the day
last 4th of july, i was with my friend going to see her aunt's new pool. i still have decent sight and don't normally use a cane. so i'm walking with my friend through the back yard to the pool and her aunt said something so i turned my head to look at her and continued walking straight into their back yard pond. poor fish and frogs. my friend was pregnant at the time and almost pissed her pants from laughing so hard.
oh that was a good one! lol smile
I was talking about someone and thay were in the room, woops! she didn't talk to me for a long wile.
have many stories to tell. but here are just a few. I was on a plane by myself and the stewertist was looking for an emergencey card in brl and he couldn't decide for a long time if it was bl people or deaf people who read brl. He keptasking this other lady who was working with him and they finially decided to ask me. The hle time everyone on board was watching. no embarrassing for me but for him. To get to the store I have to walk on the highway and there are no sidewalks, sometime when i am walking by a parkinglot i go on to the road a bit. once there wasn't any cars for a while then one came and i realized I was in the mid of a four lane highway. funny.
I got one for ya. I used to run all the time, to my classes in school. Don't ask me y, I really don't know y i did it. Anyway, to get to one of them have to go out to the mojuler classes. I come out of the building, and start going that way, and ran smack into a pole, so hard, the thing started shaking so badly, I thought it was gonna fall over. I thought no one saw me, but apparently one of my friends did, because he asked me when he saw me later, if I was alriht.
I've got Many, many many many stories.
Talked the people who wern'et there any longer, ran into poles, ya name it, I've done it.
Here's another one.
One time, I was riding my bike, which is one of those three wheel adult tricycles, because I have trouble keeping balance on a regular bike, and I was just ridin along, thinking I knew where I was going, which I did, but apearently got lost somewhere. Ended up going almost a quarter around the neighborhood. It wasn't until some point during the ride, that I stopped and figured out that things weren't familiar. Luckily, my parrents and younger brother were looking for me, since they had thought I was lost or something becauseI wasn't in sight of the house anymore. Don't think I'll doo that again. I did learn something though, so that's a good thing. I am blind, BTW. Only have light perception. And, when this took place, it was at night a couple years ago.
Even ran into a counter once, after a Christmas dinner and had to go get stiches for that. That wasn't funny, and that hur'r'r'r'r'r'r'r'r'rrrr'rrrt't'tttt'tttt!!
I was on my way to work once years ago. They were doing construction in a vacant lot that I had to cross all the time. The evening before, on my way home, I noticed that they had set up planks over part of the lot, but the next day when I was walking through the lot I had my cane lifted up to keep it from sticking in the dirt and... oh, shit, I fell into a ditch! Luckily, I landed on my feet and the ditch was too narrow for me to actually fall. Kept down, though, listening for the traffic to clear so that I could climb out with as few people noticing as had to. I got into my office about fifteen minutes late, apologized for running late, and then five or ten minutes later someone comes running in saying, "Hey, I heard you fell into that ditch outside!" Damn it! I thought I had made it through unseen by anyone who would count!
I also have a tendency to apologize to potted plants...
Lol. I hate hate hate when your talking to someone and they walk off. It happends a lot in loud places like the lunch room. I feel retarded when I do that so I often ask my friends, hey, tell me when your walking off. lol. I've had lots of these stories, ran in to stuff on mobility, ran in to poles, fallen off the edge of a curb when I wasn't paying attention. Thought there was another step in a flight of steps and made myself look retarded trying to step off. Been looking at someone while I was talking to them and they went on my other side or even left. But htere is a unique one.
I was a little girl. maybe six or seven. My mom and I were at the mall around Christmas time. There is a thing here at this mall, not sure if its everywhere but its called the angel tree. There is a tree with lots of little peaces of paper with kids names and ages and you can pick one if you want and by them things for christmas. We were standing nere it, and there was one of those fountains that malls have, it was right next to it. And on the edge of the fountain was a seven foot wooden angel. I didn't no what it was so I was feeling it, I couldn't really figure out what it was since I could only reach the bottom, so I kept feeling it while my mom was getting one of the papers. The next thing I no is, it starts moving away from me and then, splash! I shoved the angel over in the fountain. lol. I even remember being embarrassed at that age about it. The people were pretty nice about it though, they didn't sound mad when they were pulling it out and drying it off. Still. lol.
. I'm glad I've avoided most of the food ones. I always smell things before I poor them to make sure I am getting the right thing but, I did smill my drink on my lap on my first day of work just a few weeks ago. lol. I never smill drinks when I'm pooring them. lol. I guess I was just nervis, but it sure did make me feel dumb. When they offer me a drink now, they don't offer to get me a cup with ice as well any more. lol.
I'll write again once I think of another good one. I'm sure there is more. lol
well there was this time back when I was in the 8th grade. I had said or done something wrong, and had got a detention from one of my teachers. I left her classroom and went out into the hallway. I was approached by one of my classmates and asked what was wrong, because I looked about ready to punch something or someone.
I basically said, oh so and so is a god damn mother fuckin bitch. she gave me detention over this and that and this and that. and then suddennly, one of the kids started going, uh, Cam? Um, ...Cam? ... Cam?
but by this point, I was full tilt launched into telling my story. when I was done, an all 2 familiar voice behind me said something like, Cameron, shall we extend that detention of yours by another day or 2? Or perhaps the rest of the week?
my face turned absolutely red, and all the kids around me just started howeling with laughter. what happened was, even though I was well down the hall from her classroom by the time I was telling my story, she just so happened to have left and was walking down the hall towards me, but I had my back to her. and of corse, I had said her name so she couldn't help but overhear what all I had said about her.
Of corse, I apologised profusely, and quickly back pedaled as if my life depended on it.
She was like, I'll let it go, because I realize that you wouldn't have known I was there. But just remember. If you're gonna talk about someone, make sure they're not around first.
Still got the detention that day though. lolThat's just 1 of about, well, quite a few. perhaps maybe I'll share more sometime.
Cam
well, I have a couple. The first was when I had first lost my sight. I got my cain jammed in the crack of a sidewalk, and it cracked me square in the nuts. I threw the cain and started cursing loudly needless to say, and the cain flew about twenty feet and stuck straight into the ground. My mobility instructor informed me that was not an uncommon thing.
The second was when I could still see enough to see the sidewalk, and I was going to be late for class. I got the bright idea to run with the cain using touch technique. It's not a good idea I can assure you of that! Same thing happened, tand the cain jammed in a crack. This was not a folding cain, so it hung under the crotch of my pants, and Iwent straight into the air by the crotch of my pants. The cain bent like a bow under my weight. It hit my crotch so hard that it made a popping sound and hurt like hell needless to say. I'm not sure anyone saw me, but my mobility instructer asked me just what the hell happened to my cain, cause it looked like geronimo's bow. I just made up the excuse that some fat girl had stepped on my cain L.O.L!
Someone said something in an earlier post about falling off a stage. Well I’ve done that in front of about six or seven hundred people, only my experience was made so much more dramatic by the fact that I dragged my sighted guide down with me. The silence was deafening before a very deep voice back on the stage used the microphone to ask the crowd, “are you okay”? As if I wasn’t already embarrassed...
well i work in a univercity hall, and in are reseption there is always a vars of flowers, i was talking to the reseptionist, and he mooved, and i mooved my head to keep looking at him, and suddenly reolised i had put my head rite in the middle of the flowers, ugg, never new there were any till that day. i also, keep apolijising to pot plants, one just cant help but be perlight.
well, ok, here goes mine...
I'm a partial sighted, have always dated other partials or sighted (years ago).
Well since I'm now dating a Totally blind guy, I've had learn some new stuff.
well, last week we went out for dinner, at Taco Bell to celebrate my 30th birthday, and as usual, I had a dumb partial moment, we had finished our food and I went to get up to get more pop for Cam, telling him this, well the restraunt was pretty busy, and noisy. I went to fill his pepsi and the machine was not working right, the Co2 in the pepsi spigot was gone, it was just pouring syrup, so I went to the counter to get assistance, and then got talking with the manager and filled out a comment form for a commendation for the staff member that had made our food cause it was awesome, well suddenly, I hear Cam just Roar, "TODAY! would be nice!" I had totally forgot to go back to tell him that I had to go get help, I'd taken extra time and had Totally Forgotten that Cam is totally blind! instead thinking that he could see me go to the counter! And added to that he couldent hear me amongst the noise! I quickly went over and apoligized and felt so Embarrassed! Cause to me Cam is not "Blind" He is First and formost CAM, MY boyfriend, and the guy I love, to me, the total blindness comes last..