[nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes interview, Ride into History, Race for Independence, Wed. June 22, 8:00 pm EDT

Fri Jun 24 23:52:37 UTC 2011

Chris,
You are totally correct in that we do not need to repeatedly say I don't mean to afend anyone. If you are scared that what you have to say will afend someone, then don't post it. But in a free society we should feel free to say what we want without afending anyone and someone who will get afended by how someone feels or what someone says on the list, then my suggestion would be to leav the list.
Just my two sense.

Anmol

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Hellen Keller

--- On Fri, 6/24/11, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes interview, Ride into History, Race for Independence, Wed. June 22, 8:00 pm EDT
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Friday, June 24, 2011, 1:46 PM
> I agree! Hey, guys, can we please
> stop ending our messages on this subject with "sorry if this
> offends anyone?" I can understand us not wanting to offend
> people, but we don't need to be so scared of offending in
> every message we post.  Isn't that one of the things
> that frustrates us about sighted people? It does me!
> 
> Chris
> 
> "A loss of sight, never a loss of vision!" (Camp Abilities
> motto)
> To learn more about Camp Abilities and find a local camp
> near you, just click on this link to their national Web
> site: www.campabilities.org.
> 
> The I C.A.N.  Foundation helps visually impaired youth
> in Maryland have the ability to confidently say "I can!"
> How? Click on this link to learn more and to contribute:
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> 
> Sent from my BrailleNote
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kirt Manwaring <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:20:46 -0600
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes
> interview,Ride into History, Race for Independence,
> Wed.  June 22, 8:00 pm EDT
> 
> Josh,
>  True.  But most humans aren't dirtbags.  Using
> the two in
> conjunction is probably the ideal.
> 
> On 6/22/11, Josh Gregory <joshkart12 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> See, your example is, imo, a prime case of where technology
> can
> play a good role in these types of situations. 
> Technology can't
> try to...  take advantage of you like a human. 
> Sorry if that
> offended anyone.
> Just my thoughts,
> Josh
> 
> sent from my Apex
> Email: joshkart12 at gmail.com
> 
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bernadetta Pracon <bernadetta_pracon at samobile.net
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:03:18 -0400
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes
> interview,Ride into History, Race for Independence,
> Wed.  June
> 22, 8:00 pm EDT
> 
> Yes,as a matterof fact, I've had that issue once.
> A cab driver tried to tell me I gave him a five, not a
> twenty.
> In the
> first place, he had misquoted my fair purposely;I took the
> cab to
> a
> local FedEx, something I had done before and I knew full
> well
> that he
> tried to overcharge me.  When I confronted him about
> overcharging
> me, he
> started stumbling over his words saying"Well,you had three
> boxes,
> and a
> dog,and..." Then I reminded  him that he can't charge
> me extra
> for
> bringing my guide dog, and he couldn't charge me for
> bringing my
> boxes,
> because it's not like he helped me load or unload them, and
> that
> the
> whole idea was just preposterous.  I gave him a twenty
> and asked
> him to
> give me back the change he owed me.  (Now, keep in
> mind, I told
> him I
> was paying him the standard fair of that rout, and that I
> was
> initially
> planning on giving him a small tip,but now that he's been
> so
> shamelessly dishonest and rude,he wouldn't get an extra
> cent.) He
> insisted for a few minutes that in fact, I owed him money,
> because the
> bill I gave him was a five,not a twenty.  So I said,
> "ok, let'sgo
> inside
> the FedEx, and I'll ask one of the people there what the
> bill
> is.".  At
> that point,he backed down and said forget it, ok.  And
> gave me
> back a
> few bills and tried to drive off.  I threw him another
> curveball
> when I
> proceeded to check the bills he gave me with my IBill,and
> found
> he gave
> me three ones instead of a five and two ones.  Without
> a word,he
> briskly
> traded the one for a five,and sped off.  He was
> absolutely
> furious.
> SowasI, because I couldn't believe someone would be such a
> piece
> of
> scum, and not once but a few times, but I was glad that in
> the
> end,I
> didn't fall  for his low scheme.
> 
> Bernadetta
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