[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: The odd things people do
- From: "Natalie B." <lemina007@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 23:10:02 -1000
Robert,
Someone else, Elizabeth I think, aslo pointed out that I should've just gone
around. However, there was no way for me to get around. The sidewalk where I
live is very narrow. I think my mother mentioned that some years back they
chopped it in half to make the street wider. Plus, this neighbor I'm talking
about has about three or four cars that he deliberately parsk on the street so
that no one can park there. With the car flush on the sidewalk and my
neighbor's huge, huge truck on my left, there wasn't an inch of space to get
through. Despite my beagle not being a guide dog, there are some instances
where if people park half on the sidewalk he will automatically go around, but
he just stood there. I don't think even he could figure out a spot to squeeze
through. The thing is, I'm not focused on my not being able to go around so
much as I was annoyed that someone had the gall to park like that. It was
illegal, wrong and very disrespectful to others who might have tried walking
down my street at that moment.
I guess what I'm getting at is that we have laws for a reason. Whether it's a
blind person or a sighted person that comes walking down the street, we
shouldn't be forced to walk on the street in the first place.
I do hope this message doesn't sound offensive in tone or anything like that.
I'm writing this late, and the frustration of the situation still lingers with
me. I can't understand how intelligent people can be so inconsiderate.
Take care,
Natalie B.
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference."
-Reinhold Niebuhr
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Riddle
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 10:47 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: The odd things people do
All you had to do was go around the other way and get back up on the
sidewalk. I do that all the time when people stash things like trash cans and
cars on the sidewalk.
----- Original Message -----
From: Natalie B.
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 9:38 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: The odd things people do
List,
This evening I was walking my dog when I remembered an incident that
happened to me about a year or so ago. Just thinking about it makes me upset,
and I really need to share this experience with others.
About a year ago I put my beagle on his leash, grabbed some poop bags and
proceeded to exit my front gate. I didn't take my cane with me, as I've gotten
into the habit of leaving it at home. I only go around the block, and know the
area so well that it's not necessary. Anyway, I walked down the street and came
to an abrupt stop. Putting out my hand, I felt in front of me and felt, to my
utter astonishment, the hood of a car! At first I thought maybe my beagle, in
the excitement of his walk, had gone vertical and I was facing the wrong way.
But after trying to scoot around the car, but to no success, for I then came up
against the side of my neighbor's truck, which is always parked on the side of
the street. I was baffled. I had no idea what was going on, and since I
couldn't go anywhere, I turned right around and went straight back home, much
to the disappointment of my dog.
When I got home, I asked my mother to call the neighbor, since this
obstruction was mmore or less in front of his driveway. She made the call, and
then informed me that the neighbor had been expecting a couple of people over
to discuss some kind of business. And the fools had parked their compact car
directly on the sidewalk. I mean, it was directly, full-on smack dab on the
sidewalk!
Everyone, I cannot even begin to describe the irritation and annoyance I
felt that someone could have been so rude, so unmindful of others, that they
would deliberately park their car on a public sidewalk!
To this day it still makes me annoyed, and even more so because no one had
the opportunity to tell those people what they did was dumb and not to mention
illegal.
Natalie B.
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference."
-Reinhold Niebuhr
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