Category: Let's talk
so, I don't know if this is the right board to place this topic upon. I saw this on
another forum, one of the personality ones but I thought I'd start one like this
instead of you know you're such and such personality when, I thought I'd do
you know you're a blindie when.....
So finish up the sentence and you can come back again to do it over and over.
again.
You know you're a blindie/blink/blindperson when......
I know I'm a blindie when I apologize to a tree or bush that I have tapped with my cane. Oh yes, I have done this too many times. Hahaha
so have I, though less as I get older. You know you're a blind person when someone says hello to you and the first thing you think is "okay, do I know this person?" Extra fun when you wear a name tag.
By the way, I'm not usually one to care about politically correct terminology, but what in the actual flying fungal growth on a warty scrote is a "blink:? I've heard the term bandied around now and then and just ... don't get it. Is it some derogatory slang for blind kid? Either way, have to say, it's got to be one of the dumbest terms I've ever heard to describe us, especially when uttered by one of our own.
Blink. Blinking eyes, or shut eyes I suppose.
Now.
You know your a blink when ya gets lost in your bedroom.
Laughing.
Yep, yep. Grin.
My cane gently touched a lady's foot in a store once and she yelled ow! I'm crippled!
Who needs derogatory terms when "blind" strikes awe and fear in the hearts of the sighted?
BTW, I never heard "blindy" until this sight. I only ever heard blink and squint and that was from an idiot who had learning disabilities and I guess he wanted to share his unhappiness. BTW, his learning disability was not the source of his idiocy, he was just a common garden variety jerk.
I never use any of these terms. I too honestly didn't know them until I learned them here.
Smile.
Blink? Now, what the hells that?
Laughing.
You know you're a blind dude or dudette when you walk into a room and after a few minutes realize you forgot to reach for the light switch.
This happened to me not too long ago. It was the moment I realized I had truly crossed over from the sighted world to the dark side.
You know you're a blindy when you ask: "You actually Turn, On, your lights?" Hahaha!
You know you're a blindy when you ask: "You actually Turn, On, your lights?" Hahaha!
You know you're a blindy when you ask: "You actually Turn, On, your lights?" Hahaha!
you know your a blind person when you can identify someone before they speak based on scent
Oh my, that is so, so true.
Its a difficult thing to explain.
The first thing they want to know is do I stink?
Laughing.
You know your a blind person when you ask a person behind the counter a question when they have left without telling you,and dead silence greets your ears.
You know he or she is a blind person when they tell you that they once fell into an open, as in uncovered, manhole. Not a good experience at all.
To answer an earlier question more fully, a blink is a term, dorogatory usually,
for a helpless blind person. The type of person who has to have a sighted
person around to help them make toast and has to have their banana cut up by
that sighted person cuz they can't do it themselves.
You know you're a blind person when you get a whole lot of groceries and household items, fail to pay attention when putting them away, and nearly wash your hair with mayonnaise from a squeeze bottle.
I didn't actually do this, but came really, really close. Needless to say, my bottle of shampoo - which really did look a good deal like the mayonnaise bottle - was in the fridge. That could've been unpleasant all around.
You know your ex-husband is a blind person when he tells you that he put a big healthy squeeze of liquid Joy dish detergent on his pancakes. Hahaha
I've read through all of these, and I've done two. I must be a terrible blind
person.
SW's post reminds me of a sighted friend almost brushing his teeth with Ben Gay.
Fucking hell, ouch. lol to much of this. To post five, if anyone seid that to me, I'd give them such a telling-off, starting with the word cunt, that ... yeah, I'd hope use of such language would give her one hell of a heart attack, but only if I was having a shitty day and had enough of stupid people. That hasn't been me of late, but I'll definitely keep that in mind for the next ignorant shmuck I quite literally run into.
18 made me laugh.
Guess it could happen.
Grin.
Not to me, but still. Yeah.
If you think about it the two bottles are similar. If you don't check...
Laughing.
Lol. Great ones. You know your a blindy when people never move out of the way despite you using a cane or dog guide. Wait, can't they see?
you know you are blind when you brush your teeth with athletes foot medicine. my husband did this not me.
as for washing hair with mayo, back in the 60s girls actually did this. it was supposed to be a great conditioner.
I'd prefer chocolate pudding.
Oh, my!
I know I'm blind when I discover that my living room blinds, or even worse, my bedroom curtains have been left open for an undetermined number of days. Ouups, my neighbors have gotten a free show and I'm embarrassed to show my face outside for a while. Lol
oh, lalady! I keep my blinds shut almost always for that reason! Because, unfortunately, even though I promise myself I will remember, almost every time I open the blinds or turn the slats to let light in, inevitably, I do forget and like you, discover them open and want to crawl into the closet and not come out! LOL
Laughing.
Now what are these addresses??
Laughing.
I confess, it has happened to me.
You know you're a blind paranoiac when you absentmindedly misplace an object and quickly suspect you have an intruder when you reach for it and find it's not there.
You know your blind superpowers aren't so great when you think you sense someone's presence but get no response when you nonchalantly ask them how long they've been there.
But VH, I never and I mean never open my blinds or curtains because I learned the hard way some years ago that I would probably forget to close them. But sometimes I have a visitor who will open them without informing me and then I will find them open several days later. Just like when sometimes visitors turn on every light in the house and leave without turning them off. I'm totally blind, so I have no way of knowing except by climbing up on a ladder and touching the fixture. Now that's when I know for sure that I'm blind. Lol
Putting a packet of the wrong condiment on a sandwich. Tartar sauce on bologna is baaaaad.
you know you are a blind person wen you answer someone who is actually talking on a
cellphone. yup. did it. oops?
That's not as bad as apologizing to a bush for accidentally tapping it with your cane. Hahaha. Really hoping no one saw or heard you do it.
re: Post 35/35: You show great respect for the bush to whom you apologized; LOL!
I've definitely spoken to/responded to someone on a cell phone before, though not too often, thankfully.
Ditto leaving lights on forever when someone turned them on and didn't tell me. It's to the point now where I'll go around and check switches now after someone leaves.
I have curtains on my windows, and sometimes I'll get 'em out of the way in nice weather so I can get a breeze. Problem? I don't always think to pull 'em back - or didn't, anyway - so while it's not as if I make a habit of running around naked in my apartment or anything, I've been told more than once in my life that I really have to pull my curtains shut. I live on the third floor, so there's that. It was worse when I lived on the ground floor and had a sliding glass door that gave on a balcony you could access by literally hopping a three-foot railing. I was forever leaving a bit of a gap, and once, one of my exes, who had come to visit, pointed it out to me. "I know it's hot, and I know you probably didn't think of this, but there's a gap in your curtains, and when I pulled up, I could see you weren't wearing a shirt." Um, oops. I don't know how many shades of red my face went through. At least she was good about it. Even showed me a foolproof way to make sure the curtains stayed shut.
You know you're a blind person when... You accidentally put sweet tea onto your Frosted
Flakes without realizing it. Even more so when you enjoy said interesting combination, to.
Lol.