[blparent] I'm very sad today

Tue Feb 10 00:45:38 UTC 2009

And let me tell you, sometimes they can be downright ornery.  I was waiting 
at a corner by a shelter for homeless men and there were a few of them out 
smoking and when I wouldn't cross the street when they told me to, the air 
grew thick with words I can't repeat here.
Barbara

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From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 4:24 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] I'm very sad today

> Terrifying!  I keep thinking of my friend and wondering what really 
> happened.  the bistanders that told him to cross were homeless men.  The 
> burial was today.  So many questions! V
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 12:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I'm very sad today
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>> When I was waiting at a crosswalk to cross the street and catch my bus 
>> one
>> day, there was a lady already waiting at the stop.  She and I both 
>> decided
>> at the same time that I could cross the street.  (I started to cross at 
>> the
>> same time she said it was safe for me.)  There was a car two blocks away 
>> at
>> the time and as I stepped out in the street, I think she and I were both 
>> in
>> shock because the car gunned it.  It was only about a foot away from 
>> hitting
>> me when it stopped and I was transfixed in horror--a deer in the 
>> headlights.
>>
>> Barbara
>>
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>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 12:34 PM
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] I'm very sad today
>>
>>> I posted this news basically to let all of us know that we should trust 
>>> no
>>> one but ourselves when crossing streets.  I am guilty of listening to
>>> others.  One time when our NFB convention was in chicago, a friend (cane
>>> travel instructor) saw me coming along a long hallway and he disguised 
>>> his
>>> voice and said to me, mam please move to the right and I did as he
>>> commanded.  Well, he said it again and again and i did what he said each
>>> time and before you knew it I was against a wall.  I finally said to 
>>> this
>>> stranger, if I move anymore, I'll be climbing the wall.  He then laughed
>>> at me and i knew who it was.  He asked me why i kept moving when I knew
>>> there wasn't any reason for it. I'm just stupid that way.   We need to
>>> know and trust ourselves. V
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 10:43 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] I'm very sad today
>>>
>>>
>>>> How awful!  Maybe your friend misheard what was said to him.
>>>>
>>>> Jo Elizabeth
>>>>
>>>> "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one 
>>>> holds
>>>> water."--Swedish proverb
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>>>> To: "blind parents" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 7:19 PM
>>>> Subject: [blparent] I'm very sad today
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>A person i know was killed on Wednesday evening.  He was blind and for
>>>>>some
>>>>>reason he chose not to cross at the light on a very busy street. 
>>>>>Someone
>>>>>told him they would tell him when it was safe to cross and since he 
>>>>>isn't
>>>>>here to tell us what exactly they said, we don't know what was really
>>>>>said.
>>>>>The person said, "I told him don't go." and Eric stepped off the curb 
>>>>>and
>>>>>was hit by a car and now he's gone.  he was 43 and not a good traveler.
>>>>>He
>>>>>was told many times to get cane travel instruction, but he thought he
>>>>>could
>>>>>do it without.
>>>>> It was night, around 6:30, pretty much around rush hour here. V
>>>>> Veronica
>>>>
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