[nabs-l] Awkward Situations: What would you do?

[Jedi]

NABSters:

I recently joined a health club. Naturally, I have to deal with curious 
people who figure they can ask me whatever whenever. I'm working on 
finding ways to politely and firmly set boundaries as needed. For the 
most part, things have been okay. I've had to explain a lot (which gets 
old). But tonight, I experienced something so way out there that I just 
didn't know what to say or do!

We'd just finished up a guest lecture. One of the other club members 
and I got to talking. Just before we planned to part ways, she said 
that I could identify her by the way she smelled. At thesame time, she 
stuck her wrist in front of my nose and told me to smell her perfume! I 
was mortified, and all I could think to say was Ëxcuse me?"as I 
recoiled. Apparently, she and this other blind guy (someone I happen to 
know( have this running joke that he can identify her by her scent. She 
figured then that that's how all blind people identify others. I tried 
to explain that this isn't so, and I think that she figured out quickly 
that her behavior was definitely inappropriate.

I would like to know others on list have done in similar situations.

Thanks.

Respectfully,
Jedi

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