[blparent] police called

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

I don't remember reading Jennifer's  story, but we tend to stand out as 
blind people.  It's probably more nerve-wracking when there are children 
involved.  *Smile.*  Sometimes it feels like living out in public and 
raising our kids, we're in a fishbowl.  It can be scary, but maybe our best 
defense is a sense of humore.

The police got called on me once because I was digging out a strip of grass 
to make a flower bed in my own yard, years before I had my daughter.  It was 
along the sidewalk  facing the street, and my then husband and I were going 
to have a fence put in, so there was a string marking where the fence would 
go, but no fence yet.  I was minding my own business, using my gardening 
tools, when an officer walked up and introduced himself.  He said someone 
had called the police from the apartment building across the busy street 
because I had been seen digging in the grass and the neighbors were afraid I 
wouldn't know where to stop.  The concerned citizens in the apartment across 
the road were worried that I would dig right through the concrete sidewalk 
and the gutter and work my way out into traffic!

I couldn't keep myself from laughing.  I told the officer that if I, a 
120-pound blind lady with a hand trowel and a gardening rake, could dig 
through a six-foot-wide sidewalk and an asphalt gutter without even knowing 
it and end up in a busy street, the neighbors across the road and the city 
police force would have a bigger problem on their hands than they could 
solve by themselves.  Besides, I hadn't even been facing the street.  I'd 
been digging parallel to the sidewalk.  The officer laughed, too, and went 
on his way.

Jo Elizabeth

"The Bright Side of Darkness"
is my newly published novel,
available on Kindle and in paperback at Amazon.com.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jessica via BlParent
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 9:20 AM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Cc: jessicac.kostiw at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [blparent] police called

Oh my gosh! It didn't even occur to me that the priest could be called when 
I'm walking down the street with my daughter! Frankly, excuse my French, 
that scares the hell out of me! I may not have been on this list when you're 
told that story, what happened?
LOL! I'm feeding my daughter right now and dictating. That was supposed to 
say the priest not the priest. Police

Sent from my iPhone

> On Nov 4, 2015, at 3:11 PM, Jennifer S Jackson via blparent 
> <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> We post here occasionally about our own fears or experiences as blind
> parents and various local authorities. I think I shared before about being
> out on an o and m walk and having people call the police because I was out
> walking with a baby. That same day I was reported to my mother and sister 
> by
> various people who saw me out including the one who said that I was with a
> man who was not my husband. J
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>
> So today I was working out at the gym when  I received a call from an
> unidentified caller and I almost did not answer. My 11 year old had 
> actually
> just left a few minutes before after stopping in on his way from home to 
> the
> library. The police sergeant identified himself and just wanted to confirm 
> I
> knew were Henry was. In fact when I sounded concerned he assured me that 
> his
> family home schools to and that my son was polite and respectful.
>
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>
> I know this is kind of a no news event, but I think sometimes we forget to
> share when things are going well as they probably are most of the time.
>
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> Jennifer J
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