[blparent] I'm distraught!

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

I think "the other man" was her mobility instructor.  People are such 
meddlers!  I used to hang out with my former pastor's husband from time to 
time before Gerald moved in with me and Sarah came along.  She'd have 
meetings in the evenings a lot, and he'd get tired of eating alone as I did, 
so we'd go out to dinner.  No big deal; the pastor knew about it and 
encouraged it.  But you wouldn't believe the number of times she got calls 
from people in the community, telling her that her husband was in a 
restaurant with some other woman.  Since I wasn't the only one he had dinner 
with now and then, she'd just ask the caller which woman, the blind one with 
the dog, the heavy-set one who drove a Jeep, the gray-haired one, etc.

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: Thursday, March 28, 2013 8:41 PM
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Was the cop the other man?

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From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jennifer
Jackson
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 4:58 PM
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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
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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
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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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