[blparent] It really happens

Mon Jun 21 05:45:47 UTC 2010

Oh, believe me, they won't ever be doing that again.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] It really happens


> That's a safety issue.  I wouldn't let them ever take my baby in the car 
> again if I found that out, and I've laid down that rule with a few people.
>
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> From: "Elizabeth Cooks" <elizabethcooks at comcast.net>
> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 5:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] It really happens
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>> Yes, and there are those who are condescending to those of us whoa are 
>> blind, and we have such people in our church.  I am planning to ban them 
>> from ever driving us to church again.  They take over when ghey get here, 
>> and no matter how assertive my husband is ( I'm sually already gone to 
>> choir practice) they insist on putting the baby in the car, and they 
>> never strap him in correctly, if at all.  On the way home today, i 
>> discovered that the seat wasn['t strapped in, and neither was the baby. 
>> They also never listen when we tell them how the seat is to be installed. 
>> So, I sympathize about morons.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 4:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] It really happens
>>
>>
>>> It really bugged Gab.  She kept bringing it up to that little girl.  I
>>> finally told her to drop it and move on.  I then explained to her that 
>>> not
>>> all people understand blindness and not all want to learn.  I would have
>>> talked to that dad in a heart beat, but the little girl was deadest 
>>> against
>>> it.  I really don't know why someone wouldn't let her play with us, our 
>>> ball
>>> was as light as a feather and if it happened to hit me, it wouldn't have
>>> hurt.  Of course maybe the dad didn't know or care. V
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
>>> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 3:37 PM
>>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] It really happens
>>>
>>> That's so sad.  Beyond the pure insanity of not letting your child play 
>>> with
>>>
>>> someone just because she's blind, and the way it made you feel, what 
>>> that
>>> man was teaching his little girl is that you don't want to interact with
>>> people who are different from you.  That's not what we need in this 
>>> world.
>>> Chalk it up to "you can't fix stupid" and move on.
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>>> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 3:20 PM
>>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>> Subject: [blparent] It really happens
>>>
>>>> Ok, this is the way it went.  Gab and I went to the park yesterday 
>>>> evening
>>>> to kick a ball.  We bought one of those big rubber balls found in a big
>>>> net
>>>> in most supermarkets.  Gab would kick it to me and as it swished past 
>>>> on
>>>> the
>>>> grass it would make just that sound.  Then in return I'd kick it way up
>>>> high
>>>> and she'd run to get it.
>>>> Well there was a younger girl watching us and she asked Gab why I 
>>>> didn't
>>>> just walk up to it when it landed near me.  I used my cane to find it.
>>>> Gab
>>>> told her that I was blind and this is how I found the ball.  The girl,
>>>> probably around 8, asked if she could play with us and we said 
>>>> absolutely.
>>>> She said she had to ask her dad first and off she went to ask him.  We
>>>> continued playing.  A few moments later she returned and announced that
>>>> her
>>>> dad said she could not play with us since I was blind.  Iwas shocked 
>>>> and
>>>> offered to go talk to her dad.  But she said when he says no, that is
>>>> that.
>>>> So since gab likes playing with the kids at the park, I sat on the 
>>>> bench
>>>> and
>>>> let the girls play.
>>>> That was the first time, I think, I have had someone say that. Weird! V
>>>>
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