[blindkid] Fwd: Once a rider, always a rider

[Barbara Hammel]

It all depends on whether or not you get excited about the thought of blind 
people driving one day.
I don't.  But it is funny.
Barbara

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From: "Carrie Gilmer" <carrie.gilmer at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:33 PM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)'" 
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Fwd: Once a rider, always a rider

> I was thinking as I watched it that without audio description you would 
> miss
> much, well everything as there is no dialougue. A man with dark glasses 
> and
> a cane walks into a obvious motorcycle harley Davidson store with a woman,
> they go down some stairs he holds her arm but also uses his cane and a 
> store
> sales clerk approaches. The woman motions to indicate it is not me here to
> look but him, the store clerk begins to show the man a bike (harley motor
> cycle), he looks at several bikes, walks around using his cane, and uses 
> his
> cane to tap one like someone might stereotypically kick a car tire at a 
> car
> lot when buying. Then he finds one he likes and he rather dramatically 
> hands
> his cane to the store clerk who takes it and the man climbs on the bike, 
> he
> looks very happy about trying it like he found the one he wanted. Then the
> next thing you see is it appears a close up of this man driving the bike
> down the road. Then the camera pans out and he is on the bike on a trailer
> being pulled by a car being driven by the woman who gives some visual
> indication expression of okay he is happy now so I am happy kind of thing.
> Then it shows the back of he man wearing a harley leather jacket with the
> words "born to be blind" with two canes crossed like an X and then there 
> is
> the words: Lotto millionaires are not like ordinary millionaires.
>
> Like I said it is not perfect...but it is not bad unless I am missing
> something.
>
>
>
> Carrie Gilmer, President
> National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
> A Division of the National Federation of the Blind
> NFB National Center: 410-659-9314
> Home Phone: 763-784-8590
> carrie.gilmer at gmail.com
> www.nfb.org/nopbc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of trising at sbcglobal.net
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 12:52 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)
> Subject: Re: [blindkid] Fwd: Once a rider, always a rider
>
> I was thinking the same thing. I did not get it.
>
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