Category: the Rant Board
OK, current car pool arrangement at work is not really working and I can't find another. Sometimes, being blind just royally fucking sucks! LOL
yeah it does. doesn't it? I've been trying to get on the short busses down here. but they mainly approve you if you are not able to walk or something. They don't consider blindness to be a mobility impairment. well iff your in a chair you can ride the regular bus as well. it just takes longer!
oh! please. if you're blind then you are blind.
nothing you can do.
anyway...i like to be blind
I agree it can suck at times. Earlier today, my mom and one of my brothers had a little I guess discussion over the car. Apparently, it's my mom's and youngest brother's fault he goes late to work, when it's really his choosing to get ready at the last minute, and he says we make him feel greedy when we want to use the car. I have a Tuesday/Thursday morning class and then a Wednesday evening class for college, and mom has hers on Monday/Wednesday/Fridays and the youngest brother drops her off and picks her up for that. And then we rarely use the car aside from that, except when youngest brother visits his girlfriend while our other brother is at work. It used to work out that I would take paratransit to school and I could get a ride from my mom or youngest brother for back home. But now my mom is tired of trying to talk to and reason with the complaining brother, so she's going to make him fully responsible for the car, including papers and everything, and take the bus to school. And I'll need to start making 6 trips a week instead of 3 on paratransit. I don't so much mind taking paratransit, having to call them. But sometimes they do have their times where I arrange to be there at a reasonable time earlier than I need to be, and I'm still very late for class. There's even been times when I actually missed a whole class.! Plus, it does add up, and I'm only getting money from financial aid, as my mom needs my check to help pay our bills. So yeah, now there will be going a lot of what I'm saving just because of my brother's immature attitude, but for now there's not much choice. Now I feel better for letting it out *smiles*, as I just found this out today a little while ago anyway.
Sometimes, FAMILIES suck !!!!
I don't think being blind sucks; I think certain people suck! LOL.
Yay for Allie's statement. I totally agree with you.
epilepsy sucks, being terminally sucks,losing a child hurts like hell,so stop dramatising over such a minor detail..christ if you think this is serious you haven't bloody lived long enough.
Go fuck yourself Goblin. It's just a board for rantings, and those who know me well know I have the proper perspective. I totally agree with Allie, but sometimes it's fun to overdramatize for a moment or two!
Yeah, I think leaffan was just venting. *GRIN*
Goblin, I agree, it can be much worse. And the thing is, blindness only sucks if one makes it suck, personally I love being blind, because the parts that get frustrating cancel out with the totally awesome parts, you know the cute guys who help you even though you don't need it, the reading in the dark, the seeing things in a whole new light, the communities you're involved in, etc. But meh, I know how it feels to rant even if it isn't the most logical thing to do. But Goblin, again, I agree with you that it could be much much worse and really I don't have the right to complain or be lazy .
the biggest thing that sucks about blindness is the atitude of others towards it, there, I've said my bit, bye.
well, I agree it's more sighted people's attitudes about it that can be the pits, rather than the blindness itsself. I'm not an advocate for or against being blind, but there are a few advantages to it. For one thing, I'm not helpless when the power goes out, just bored stiff, because my cassette player's batteries eventually run down, tfv doesn't work, and the computer doesn't work. But one advantage when I was younger and use to go to a handicapped camp where I was the only blind person, I could read without someone getting on my case about the light bothering them. It can be the pits when there's something you want to do which takes sighted assistance.
wonderwoman
reading in the dark is great yes.
man that used to piss my sis off i would read in the dark and she hated it cause she couldnt
I think it is a little of everything. Of course I totally agree with Goblin, there are way, way more horrible, dramatic things. Being blind ... you ghet used to it. But of course it is the case that we have a disadvantage sometimes.
No I have my beautiful partner for that...we went at it like..ok there are children on the Zone, and Leaffan, you sound like the youngest
Ok, have you ever heard of taking the paritransit to work if your carpool isn't working out for you? I realize they're not the most relyable system in the world, and they've gotten on my nerves any number of times here, but at least you'd have a way of getting to and from work if someone there isn't able to take you.
I mean really, carpooling isn't the only means of transportation there is.
Or public transport you know buses, the underground and the blind persons cheat, the taxi ect. As I do on a daily basis but then I am independent.
to quote a corny catch phraise,...get over it! You can do nothing about it, so deal with it.
I rather enjoy being blind! I used to get upset when my Mom used to ask me if I wished I could see! I told her that if God would've wanted me to see he would have let me! I understand about the first person wanting to vent! I vent about a lot of stuff! But never about my blindness! I can tell you the only thing that hurts me right now is loosing my Dad!
Thomas I know the pain your feeling its dreadful and though it's been 4 years since Dad died, sometimes it feels like yesterday, if you want to talk you know where I am.
I've never vented about my blindness, and I sure as hell am not going to start now. What I am pissed about is how annoying some of the bus drivers in my town can be. I understand that they're not really used to seeing the blind on the bus system, but AI once overheard the driver calling his supervisor or something on the damn walky-talky, and when we got to the transit center and I got off the bus, the driver was all, "I don't know how to handle her." I was sitting there thinking, "Good Lord, why don't you just ask me what the hell you're supposed to do instead of relying on someone else?"