[blparent] speaking of bumps on the face

Sat Nov 10 23:55:27 UTC 2012

I was furious!  And Gab had one of those instructors who threw her into the
deep water during swimming lessons.  So needless to say, for many many
years, she was terrified of the water.  Not anymore, she is pretty much a
fish!

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From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jeri Milton
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 8:26 PM
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	Hi V. A jerk? That's putting it nicely! Did you report him? It
doesn't sound harmless at all. Is that sort of like the parents who throw
their kids into the deep in of the pool and tells them to swim? I just don't
understand people sometimes.

Jeri

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Veronica
Smith
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 7:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] speaking of bumps on the face

I had a mobility instructor who left me standing at a busy intersection
while he went to make a phone call.  He said, stand here and listen to the
traffic so you can get an idea of which way the cars are going.  Sounds
harmless enough, but he never came back.  
In my opinion, he was a jerk.

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:04 AM
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Jeri!  You had a real bee with an itch for a mobility instructor.  Letting
you smack your head on a phone booth to make you remember it was there is
only a smidge worse than hitting you.  She's lucky I wasn't your mom, I
would have had her head on one of those lunch trays.  And I thought the one
I had in kindergarten was bad because she got mad at me for hitting my eye
on the sharp corner of a counter.  Not unsympathetic, not matter-of-fact,
but mad.  I had hoped things were improving from those early days of special
education.  Apparently not fast enough.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeri Milton
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 9:46 AM
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I have a good one for ya. When I was in high school there was a long line of
half phone booths just before the lunch room doors. Well, I had a mobility
instructor showing me the way around the campus and she lett me smack my
head right into one of the booths. It hurt quite bad. She said that she let
me smack it so that I would remember that it was there. I never got along
with her after that. If she had simply showed me that it was there or told
me that it was there, I would have remembered. Oh, and my cane use to get
stuck in the big heavy doors in between classes. I would just reach the door
jam with my cane and some other kid would run past me and let it swing
closed. Ah, such sweet memories!

Jeri

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 8:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] speaking of bumps on the face

I have often wondered who came up with the idea of heavy doors that swing
out into crowded hallways.  I got hit in the face when I was in high school
and ended up with a heck of a nosebleed.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message-----
From: Veronica Smith
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 8:39 PM
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Subject: [blparent] speaking of bumps on the face

While G was walking to her locker at the end of the school day, someone
threw open a door and hit Gab directly under her right eye.  She said she
stood there for a few seconds, not knowing exactly what happened and then
toppled over.  One of the teachers who was just walking out of his class saw
her fall and immediately she burst into tears.
He got some help and had her science teacher escort her to the nurse.  Thank
goodness it wasn't her eye or much worse than a really sore cheek.
Really, doors that open out into a busy hallway, who thought that was a good
idea?
Now the funny side of this, she was walking with some friends who were a few
steps in front of her, they missed the accident and kept on going.  Not a
clue that Gab got hurt and oblivious to her wheare abouts.  Glad they're not
my friends. They did call her later, after she walked home and asked her,
where she went?Sheesh!

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