Thanks for sharing this with us, Carson. It’s too bad so many people don’t
observe crosswalks, and even worse when they don’t even apologize.
This would make a good subject for a Facebook public awareness post. Not
the exact story, but pointing out the general problem. Maybe one of us
could work something up for that.
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 2:30 PM Carson Wood <carsonlwood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good Afternoon.
About a week ago Kathy and I were crossing Maine Street from the side
of Spring Street closest to the old city hall, now a bank.
We had the walk light. As we were crossing an SUV cut us off stopping
on the crosswalk.
Kathy said to the woman, you are in the crosswalk. The woman said,
well. Walk around. Kathy said I’m leading a blind guy. I, now angry, yelled
out F you . The woman yelled back F you .
If I had been alone this sort of thing is super dangerous because I
would have needed to find my way around a vehicle that should not have been
there. Guide dogs can be confused by this as well.
When these things happen, if a blind person allows panick to get a grip
the situation can become deadly not to say it can be deadly anyway.
This driver attitude is exactly why I don’t travel so much in Westbrook
anymore. Blind people from other Maine towns think of Westbrook as the wild
west for pedestrians with valid reasons.
