What is the funniest/most awkward blind moment you've had?(self.Blind)
submitted by AlexDalcourt
Real_Space_Captain7 points3y ago
I was with a group of friends, one who knew I had tunnel vision but the rest didn't. I turned to look at a store and smashed right into a tree really hard. Everyone started freaking out and strangers stopped to check on me. I kept trying to laugh it off and explain I was fine but no one would give me a moment to breath.
Meanwhile my friend just goes "oh yeah, that happens sometimes. You'll get use to it" and continued to walk, which appeared coldhearted to those because they didn't know but I laughed.
AlexDalcourt [OP]2 points3y ago
I have done this kind of thing too 😂
ABlindManPlays7 points3y ago
Someone offered a handshake. I thought she was further away. I missed. Got boob instead.
AlexDalcourt [OP]2 points3y ago
Oml 😂
Cptn_dropbear6 points3y ago
Not mine but my dad's two favourite funny stories he likes to tell us kids.
1. Dad before he married mum used to teach massage classes. He got a call to do on site training at a massage parlour to check all staff were really fully trained. At end of training the manager who had picked him up said ok lady's you can all get dressed now. Turns out they were all naked and it was not a massage parlour but in polite terms a happy ending parlour. Poor dad in a room full of naked lady's and he had no idea.
And the other story
At a Fountain for blind awards dinner back in the 1980's where everyone attending was either fully or over 80% blind
They did a buffet dinner service
Dad said it was a real case of the blind leading the blind that night.
AlexDalcourt [OP]2 points3y ago
I love that wow 😂
KE5TR4L5 points3y ago
Pre surgery im all gowned up and they have taken my glasses, i have a friend with me to do any reading needed.
Apparently they did not get the memo that i am almost completely blind because they kept trying to send my friend out to the waiting room while they finished my paperwork
Finally one of the nurses says in thIs real high pitched voice "OH YOU REALLY ARE BLIND! I thought you were joking!!"
Im told the doctor and assistant also made a surprised pikachu meme.
It wasnt someone i had met with before the surgery but i really thought that would have been more prominent in my file lol
Story 2 though was my fault
My roommate at the time was blind in her left eye, im entirely blind in my right, so we tried to walk so our good eyes overlapped and we could see everything.
We did not manage to do this walking home from the bar and we drunk walked right into a huge ditch
AlexDalcourt [OP]2 points3y ago
I feel story 1 on another level 😂
ElfjeTinkerBell2 points3y ago
I have this colleague. We frequently walk into each other.
guitarandbooks4 points3y ago
This has happened to me more than once and I'm sure it's happened to many other blind people as well!
You're walking down the street for example and next to you or in front of you, you hear someone say "Hi. How are you?" You answer them and then realize that they are on their cell phone, or, may be using a bluetooth earbud.
Also, I was walking to the store across from my apartment complex with my guide dog years ago in Texas. It was attached to a gas station so we would go around the side via the sidewalk until we got to a little connecting sidewalk in front of the store. Well my guide dog decided to take a shortcut for some reason that day and I ran straight into a huge tree with enough force to knock me backwards. After a moment processing what happened, I picked myself up off the ground and we were on our way. I wonder if anybody saw us! It was odd because usually he was an awesome guide but in this particular case, nope!
AlexDalcourt [OP]2 points3y ago
I totally relate!
kittycats-tail20082 points3y ago
Before the lockdown, my mother and i went to a shop to buy some groceries and we ended up standing in a fairly long queue. I was just standing there minding my own business when the guy behind me suddenly started yelling at me because he thought i was holding up the queue by standing in a shop sleeping. I tried my utmost best to assure him that i have been awake the whole time but he simply did not believe me. Alot of random people seem to think that i can sleep upright, because my eyes are closed all the time. I never get used to their sudden weird questions.
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