[blparent] coming to my defense
Elizabeth Cooks
elizabethcooks at comcast.net
Thu Apr 23 12:23:42 UTC 2009
Some people need to teach their children propperly. If I had been a sighted
parent or grandparent, and i heard that my daughter or granddaughter said
something like that, she would have gotten a good talking to, if not more,
and I would have personally taken her to the person in question and made her
apologize.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kliph" <phantom3919 at yahoo.com>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 4:37 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] coming to my defense
> No matter how hard we try, we will never satisfy the general public. I am
> a
> personal care attendant. And applied for a position 2 months ago, they
> put
> me through the ringer, making me provide double the references, taking
> extra
> tests, and even made my clients sign a waiver saying if they got hurt the
> company wouldn't be liable. So I said forget it, went to another company,
> they hired me with no questions asked, looked at my impressive resume, and
> asked me how many hours did I want. So what I do is laugh at the
> ignorance,
> be the best at everything I do, and let them sit back in aw because I can
> do
> it better than they can!
>
> If God were small enough for our minds, He wouldn't be big enough for our
> needs!
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Veronica Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:30 PM
> To: blind parents
> Subject: [blparent] coming to my defense
>
> Ok, this is how it went. Kiana accused Gab of wearing the same dress 2
> days
> in a row. Gab said she had not, that the day before she had worn tan
> pants
> and her spirit shirt. Kiana said that Gab had not. So then Gab told her
> if
> she didn't believe her, she could ask her mom. So then Kiana told Gab
> that
> blind people didn't know anything and they were stupid. Gab said she
> wanted
> to hit her, but did not. Gab told her that blind people could do anything
> except drive. Gab told her that I knew everything especially what she
> wore
> each day. Kiana just laughed at her and insisted that blind people were
> nothing. Of course, my daughter came home in tears.
>
> I tried to convince her that it didn't matter what her friend said, but it
> mattered to my daughter. So I called Kiana's grandmother and told her
> what
> happened. She said that her granddaughter didn't mean to offend me. I
> saw
> Kiana at the bus stop this morning and really espected an apology, but
> there
> was none coming. I guess I should be satisfied that her grandmother knew
> what happened, but it really bugs me. V
>
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