[blparent] I'm distraught!

[Jennifer Jackson]

I used to live in the same small city as my mother and sister when my oldest
was an infant. I was out with an O&M instructer one day and it did turn into
quite an adventure. I offer up my O&M instructer as evidence that I was not
doing anything dangerous. :) A group in a restaurant decided to call the
police because I was walking in the street. Of course I was only in the
street because their cars were pulled up over the sidewalk and I was having
to go around them. :) To give the cops credit, they just asked if I was ok
and apologized for bothering us. This same walk led to several people
calling my mother and sister to make sure they knew I was out. :) One even
pointed out that I was out with a man who was not my husband. I never could
decide if she thought I was out on illicit excursion with the baby in a back
pack or what. :)

I gave up on blending years ago. :) 



Jennifer

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:58 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] I'm distraught!

I called and asked a sighted friend of mine to go and watch the light cycle.

He said the way I described what I heard, I should have had the 
right-of-way, and the turning cars ought to have stopped.  So either I 
missed something I should have heard, or I was doing the crossing right and 
three cars didn't yield when they were supposed to.  I find it hard to 
imagine that three of them in a row did the wrong thing, so I must have made

a mistake, but I'm not sure what it was.  My friend said cars are required 
to stop for pedestrians, period.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but it's a fairly small city, so I started having fears 
that someone I know would call my parents or my boyfriend and say what they 
saw, or some well-meaning stranger would call CPS and report the poor little

endangered child walking with a blind chick who had a black guide dog--we 
don't blend real well, so that would narrow down the possibilities pretty 
darn quick.  So far, nothing, so maybe it's my own conscience, but I called 
my boyfriend just in case to let him know what happened.

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: Rhonda Lewis-Kubehl
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:34 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] I'm distraught!

As you know Feb, 1st, my son and I were hit by a car leaving toys r us.
We had the right away, and the driver ran the stop light.
Although it was scary, we still go out.
I'm a little bit afraid to cross the street again, but I put my fears
aside, my faith in God, and continue on with what we call normal life.
You can do it!


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