[blparent] It really happens

[Deborah Kent Stein]

What a sad, sad story!  Think of the message this guy is sending to his 
daughter!  We certainly do have miles to go.

Debbie

----- 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 4:20 PM
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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