This is an example where one person's humor is far from funny to somebody else. I have a different take on the scene you describe.
Call me old fashioned. To me it seems unethical and somewhat slimey.Forgive me for sounding insulting. I just disagree about the described scene being amusing.
E. At 10:12 AM 6/26/2008, you wrote:
This is being written/edited by two PWVI with pretty thick skins and strong senses of humor. When you mentioned the getting incorrect change from the cashier problem, I thought of one of our chapters where we pay for something with a ten dollar bill, listen to the cashier count out the change and, with outrageous indignation, we insist we paid with a twenty. The manager comes over, gives us our extra ten and we leave getting the product for free and entertaining the other customers. I don't know anyone who has actually done this but we thought it would make for a funny scene. Turning the tables on those who would cheat or wrong one of us will be the theme of a number of vignettes. If you have any stories that you would let us use, please send them along. We will edit them to make the stories sound like they are coming from the voices of the authors/editors and we will need a release form as we cannot pay for extra work contributed by other storytellers as we're pretty certain to lose money on this gig anyway. Anyone else with funny anecdotes or stupid sighted people tricks or experience testing the accessibility of a nudie bar or have found yourself dancing with a stranger whom you thought was your date and having a pile of fun in the process, stories about firearms and other weapons used by PWVI are often entertaining too so please send them to us and at least get a mention in the dedication page. Blind driving stories should fill an entire section too. We're trying to use "true" stories but remember that truth can be disguised by facts. cdh Chris Hofstader CUNY, BSO, ATG, Odds and Ends email: cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Blog: http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com Skype: BlindChristian phone: 727-896-6393 -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of E. Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:29 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My novel I guess my only concern is one person's fun can be another's cruelty. Think of what some would call harassment and others would call fun for example. Such things might include people shouting out of cars such things as "Watch where you are going? Are you blind or something?" at a person traveling with a white cane or guide dog. E. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. __________ NOD32 3219 (20080625) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.__________ NOD32 3221 (20080626) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
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