That's exactly the thought I had, E, so, call me old fashioned too, I
don't
care!
Susan
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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
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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.
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