I'm partially sighted. When I was about 10 years old I went on a school trip to a 500 year old prison and I started talking to this man who was flatly ignoring me. This wound me up so I started speaking louder and as I turned to get my teacher involved, she put her hand on my shoulder and said "that's a statue".

Not me, but it happened with some kids in our camp. We were showing the kids how to high-five, which they really liked. Two kids attempted to high-five each other, missed, and slapped each other in the face. We had to switch to fist bumps after that.

Almost sat on a strangers' lap on the train because I was told that there were empty seats so I assumed the whole row of seats were empty.

Yes there were two empty seats, but the seat right next to those was occupied!

It's honestly best to laugh things off with humor. I used to take things so seriously. Now I learned that life's not worth getting frustrated over the small things.

Pretty much every time I apologize to a plant or a chair in front of my coworkers

I just introduced myself to my boss of six months. Was expecting a new student to come through the door at that exact time.

Also spent some time at Microsoft's offices, and boy are those doors clean. Kept walking into them like a bird. Would have been a good time to whip out the cane...

Apologizing to a mannequin I almost bumped into.

There were 2 cars in the driveway. I got in the passenger seat of one and heard the horn honk quietly a few times. I asked my dad, who was going to drive what he was doing, I was confused as to why he was honking like that. No answer, I thought it was weird he was ignoring me since he doesn't usually. Then I heard it again and realized I got in the wrong car. Open the door, step out and hear my dad laughing from the other car. Was great.
Another one is in grade 9 I was looking for the boys change room to change for skiing or something. I go in and close the door. I hear one of the gym teachers say hi rory. I don't think anything of it for whatever reason and set my bag down on te ground in front of me and begin to take my pants off. He then says wait, are you looking to change in here? This isn't the change room, its the gym storage room.

Well, Here we go.

When I was in I believe 9th grade, I was in my english class going to the library with the whole class to do a research project that was worth a lot of points. Anyway, at the time, I would frequently stay up all night before school because sleep was incredibly hard for me to get because of the floaters that would come at night as I am totally blind.
Anyway, i was going down the stairs not even paying attention to anything as I was dozing off. There was this girl in front of me named Jackie who I never spoke to as she was one of those popular girls who didn't do anything but gossip with her friends about other people. I reached for the railing, but missed where the railing was because I wasn't paying attention and got a really bad scream in my face. Apparently, I had grabbed her butt and didn't even really notice until a couple of seconds after I had done it. That woke me up really fast. Suffice it to say that I used all of my energy up to that point to at least try to pay attention when in hallways, that, or I would make it a point to hide my free hand at all times fearing that everyone in school would try to make me even more of an outcast because of something I had mistakenly done. This was during the meto movement when people went wild with out restraint because a person is a male.

One time during lunch I asked a coworker for his leftover corn, since he wasn't eating much of it and had finished his meal. He let me know it was actually unusually shaped French fries, but that I was welcome to them. They really weren't very good...

Well i was at my brothers house and we are both legally blind. There was a mosquito in the room we were trying to kill. Problem is, when i could see it, it was in his blindspot. When he could see it... you guessed it.

I was so used to interacting with my sighted family that, when I went to blindy school for a while, I couldn't give things to people properly. I was like "here", and I was expecting they will actually see where I point to. Also at blindy school, touching breasts instead of the wall was a completely normal thing, especially for someone of my height. There were perverts doing this on purpose, but even for people who didn't want to, it still happened. We didn't use canes inside the building due to the number of blind people (common thing here), so those who weren't that good at mobility used walls for guidance. Some people were standing close to them, though. My most extreme example of that problem was when I wanted to crouch down and pick up something I've accidentally dropped, I think a thumb drive or something like that. There was actually a sighted girl pretty close by that wanted to help, so she started approaching. Of course, my head ended up where it shouldn't have.

I’m sure you guys know how canes don’t always catch ice before your foot does. One day I was walking with some friends and nobody noticed this huge ice patch on the sidewalk until I was going down. I landed in a sort of ninja crouch with my arms out and one knee a little down and completely unscathed. When my friends helped me up one of them leaned over and whispered, “There are three guys across the street who look like they just saw God.”

In general, I try to get all my sighted friends to tell me what people do when I come barreling through. stuff like that is why. :D

Okay I gotta share this one!

I was doing some cane training in a mall and you know how there’s always so much stuff out in front of the stores? Well, I was on my way past the new age store when my cane missed and I almost took out an entire giant display of wind chimes! ...That display was gone the next time i was there.

I’m legally blind (20° of peripheral vision and 20/200 acuity). One morning, while still half asleep, I was getting coffee. Normally, I add half-and-half and sugar. Well, this particular morning I unknowingly grabbed the flour and poured some on in. Two seconds later, I’m gagging.

Once in high school, I was late to class and rushing down a flight of stairs to get to the classroom and ran head-first into a fire extinguisher that was hanging on the wall. I fell down the last half-flight of stairs and tumbled into the classroom (which was conveniently right at the bottom of said stairs) just as the bell rang...

Well, I can relate to all of these. Thank you all for posting. Let me take it on a slightly different bent. I can tell you about a conversation I had over and over again. I was dating someone once who probably has slightly better vision than I do but because of her upbringing had very little cane skills. She was just learning at the time (this was in her mid-thirty's) and wasn't comfortable using it particularly in clouds or in the dark preferring instead to use me as her not so sighted guide. She would bring it out when the ground was more open and flat only. The one thing she wasn't though was shy. Whenever we would ask for directions, and the hapless sightling would ignore me (you know how they do) she would say something like "don't show me, I am blind," The person would almost without fail say, "oh sorry miss I thought he was." They would inevitably look around for a third person to talk to. More than once the conversation ended with the person thinking we were just messing with them and get exasperated. I know when I write about it doesn't seem that funny but to us, it was hilarious.

I go into a lot of pot shops. It's the only place I go alone. Usually I follow the wife around, so I don't need a cane, but when getting weed, I have to go alone. The best part is when I ask what's on sale, and they say, "it's all of these on this shelf," and then I have to explain that I am just good at faking it (usually I've already looked up what I want on weedmaps, so I don't have to ask what's in the shop!). Always gets a good laugh, and then they start waving in front of me like I'm kidding.

One time I was following the wife around the grocery store, and she disappeared, and I just grabbed some random woman's basket and started talking. She didn't freak out at all, and just had a nice conversation about cereal. I quickly realized it wasn't the wife, and asked if she was nearby!

A handicapped guy in braces (I can see a little bit) got onto me for using the handicapped toilet in a grocery store. I just didn't have the cane on me. I was waiting by the handicapped door until I heard someone else leave, not even trying the other toilets, because I just wait for the sounds. The handicapped guy realized the other was empty, and he took it, while I took the handicapped one as soon as some little kid ran out of it a few seconds later. THEN he starts into me with a long speech about not being able to use his arms well, and how the rails in my toilet would have helped. I'm like, "I have a list of problems, and don't wish to discuss them while evacuating my bowels." He shut up.

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When I taught assistive technology, I had a female client in her twenties, even more blind than I am. You know that fun moment when two blind people have to shake hands? You both reach out, and feel around a bit before finally finding each others' hand? Well, I reached out, but for some reason, she stepped forward. After a moment, my hand made contact. Unfortunately, the contact was with her right breast, not her hand. Her parents and vision counselor were watching the greeting. I instantly pulled my hand back and acted like nothing had happened. She didn't seem to care, but I felt bad and was quite embarrassed. I should have apologized, obviously, but my brain wasn't working quite right as I tried to recover from the shock and figure out how best to both handle the situation and try to act normal. Calling attention to my mistake seemed like the worse of my options.

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