Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Blind |6:22 PM| I helped a blind guy today. Woo hoo, I should get a medal. Anyhow, I was over at the bank, when I noticed a dude with a seeing eye dog trying to find his way through a set of glass doors. He of course, could not read the signs that said "These doors are locked! Please go around the corner!". 2 out of the 3 entrances to the store in question were locked, and the dude would have had to feel his away around the entire mall before he found the open one. I called out, offering help, and I could almost hear the mental calculations of "Is this dude actually going to help me, or is it 'Play a prank on the blind guy day'? How much of my personal pride in my self-reliance do I give up to accept help from this eye-using punk?"
It was only the briefest, half-second delay, but then he accepted my offer. After a few minutes of guiding him around the mall, we got to the street, and the intersection he needed.
I bring this up not for compliments, but I was thinking to myself, yesterday I was incredibly frustrated at a computer test that was calling me an idiot, and getting angry at the program, the people who wrote it, random dust motes, etc. But this poor guy, the whole world was calling him stupid, and the glass doors must have been intensely frustrating.
You re-learn something new everyday. Perhaps I take too much for granted.
Blind |6:22 PM| I helped a blind guy today. Woo hoo, I should get a medal. Anyhow, I was over at the bank, when I noticed a dude with a seeing eye dog trying to find his way through a set of glass doors. He of course, could not read the signs that said "These doors are locked! Please go around the corner!". 2 out of the 3 entrances to the store in question were locked, and the dude would have had to feel his away around the entire mall before he found the open one. I called out, offering help, and I could almost hear the mental calculations of "Is this dude actually going to help me, or is it 'Play a prank on the blind guy day'? How much of my personal pride in my self-reliance do I give up to accept help from this eye-using punk?"
It was only the briefest, half-second delay, but then he accepted my offer. After a few minutes of guiding him around the mall, we got to the street, and the intersection he needed.
I bring this up not for compliments, but I was thinking to myself, yesterday I was incredibly frustrated at a computer test that was calling me an idiot, and getting angry at the program, the people who wrote it, random dust motes, etc. But this poor guy, the whole world was calling him stupid, and the glass doors must have been intensely frustrating.
You re-learn something new everyday. Perhaps I take too much for granted.
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