I have some more, but I think most of them are very specific and every blind person will have their own set of preferences, so if you have a blind person in your social circle it would be nice to ask them if they have something to add to the list.

I'm in college right now and I face a big issue while walking from class to class on corridors or up or downstairs. People tend to just sit or lay on the floor or on the steps and spread their legs or be completely silent on their phones. Even though I use a cane, it's a metal cane that can really hurt someone if I hit them on the face or belly with the normal walking speed momentum. It would be a lot easier if people would stay out of the middle of the corridors and off the steps on a staircase, or if they at least made some noise so I could know they were there.

I also have a bad time when people who do not know my condition yet try to handle me things or shake my hand. I simply don't see. I greet people with hand waving instead.

As for the electric scooters parked outside a marketplace, I can see how that would be an issue. I have partial vision, and what is problematic for me is when markets put full displays outside in the spring and summer for plants and sometimes fruit, or goods. It is so hard to navigate my way to the entrance with the displays and people and their carts blocking the sidewalk and entryway.

I've been trying to start doing this but it is so hard when the place/people are not new to you. Best thing to do, though.

I forgot to mention this. You have to shout out while waving, or the waving will be just like the head nods.

I had a reputation of "arrogant bitch" I only knew about years after my first semester. I was always confused as why people would ignore me or go away when I tried talking to them. It turns out they've been greeting me from a distance in some open areas and I didn't respond (because I had no idea they were there), so they thought I was rude and isolated me completely. That's one reason why using the cane is important even when you are not fully blind.

I have had the same problem with people where I live. When my kids were small, people would see me walking around town and wave or call hello as they drove by or ask us if we want a ride, and I had no idea who they were. So little by little I could feel people not responding to me like I was an alien bitch. I wished I had used my cane more just as a indication for them. People I know better, say their name when they see me. I wish everyone would.

and guide dogs are a magnet for sketchy people. My buddy who has a guide dog has a default name of George when inevitably that sketch person asks the dog's name

I can get around just fine with a cane and do when I travel internationally, but for my set of specific circumstances, a guide dog is much easier for me. For me it's just the implication that I'm lucky I get to bring a dog everywhere, hence that I'm lucky to be blind, when in fact me going blind seems like the opposite of luck.