h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Having a very dear friend who is visually impaired, and being used to helping her around my town when she comes to visit, with her long white cane in tow, I can vouch for the fact that, just sometimes, it isn't so much a case of the sighted leading the blind, but the blind being a tad overenthusiastic with their canes and nearly taking a sighted person's eye out!

As good as my friend is with her cane, she's a terror to anyone in a wheelchair, or to anyone else with a cane for that matter, not to mention what she's like with people who happen to be seated, or ones, walking along their merry way who AREN'T looking where they are going.

To give her credit - she can't actually see these obstacles, and so I shouldn't honestly laugh at the memory of her and another blind person having a sword fight of sorts with their long white canes, at the university campus I attend, both shouting at the other "Can't you see I'm blind!". Umm.

I probably also shouldn't smile when I think back to the incident with the guy in the wheelchair, who she narrowly missed permanently blinding with her cane because she couldn't see or hear the powered chair coming her way, or him running over the ball of her cane as payback.

Ahh, but she's been a godsend to me on more than one occasion, and I for one am glad she has the cane and ball, because if she hadn't, I would have fallen into a fair few holes of my own that her trusty cane found for us (I have depth perception problems, so holes don't appear as holes to me until I've actually fallen into one).

Anyway, that's my little bit added.

Toodles....

You tell these tales very well.

TRiG.

Thank you very much!