What are some of the funny things that have happened to you because of being Blind?(self.Blind)
submitted by SeeSawPodcast
Hi guys When I'm having a down day I always think back to those times I made a prat of myself to makeme smile and cheer me up.
The other day rather than admit I'd picked up the wrong thing at a shop I forced down grub that I hate! Cringing and smiling as I went.
What are some of your stories?
retrolental_morose50 points1y ago
Got off a train in the rain. Nobody around at a rural station. I walked and walked, looking for someone, or a phone box, or anything. Heard something. 'Excuse me, I say. No answer. The breathing continues. 'Can you tell me if -' a strange sound.
...
Then I realise I'm talking to a horse.
fanofthefollowing27 points1y ago
I got trapped in a KFC because I couldn't find the door! Everything looked like a glass window.
Somebody finally came in and I was able to go to MY EYE DOCTOR APPOINTMENT across the street!
They asked me how my sight was doing. My reply "Not good."
Stopped by for lunch in the Twilight Zone!
QuentinJamesP8917 points1y ago
This happens to me all the time. Finding glass doors in glass buildings like that is surprisingly difficult. I'll often find myself just walking around until something opens.
PrincessDie1235 points1y ago
This was so much worse for me before automated doors, now if it opens on its own I can find it well enough but dang the number of times I ran into a glass wall through the years. Glad I developed a sense of humor but being a shy kid it made me want to cry, now I just laugh because my mishap probably looked hilarious from the outside
SeeSawPodcast [OP]16 points1y ago
I once walked into a glass door thinking it was open and cracked the glass.
QuentinJamesP895 points1y ago
It's both painful and embarrassing. I can't even tell you how many screen doors I have broken that way, and I try to be pretty careful.
carolineecouture16 points1y ago
Haha, these are fun. I was out at dinner with a new friend and got a small bowl of ravioli; I poured it on the plate under the bowl, only I didn't notice there was a paper doily under the bowl. My friend noticed just as the food went onto the plate. Embarrassed, I spent the whole evening picking paper out of my mouth as I ate. Good times.
Zeebaaraa13 points1y ago
As a child I was waiting for my dad to pick me up from school. I recognized our car and ran to it and hopped in the back.. not my dad. I quickly left and went to wait in the school again.
At work a coworker was next to me and I didn't realize and I basically slapped a cup of coffee out of his hand when I turned 🙃
SeeSawPodcast [OP]3 points1y ago
I've done this. Thought it was my wife and didn't realise until I got buckled in and said "OK Let's go" that a huge guy just said, "who are you?"
PrincessDie1232 points1y ago
Oof I’ve done both of these more than once haha
OldManOnFire12 points1y ago
* Dinner at my son's house in Tennessee. His wife sets a plate of food on the table in front of me, but quite far away. I pull the plate towards me - and onto my lap. Turns out the plate wasn't in the middle of the table, I wasn't as close to the table as I thought. * Boarded an airplane in Denver. I was the first passenger aboard. The pilot met me at the door. I don't know why I thought of this but I said to him "Hey, wanna borrow my cane and glasses? Scare the other passengers?" He didn't laugh. * I often enjoy a fruit smoothie while relaxing in the bathtub. I don't always remember to take the empty cup back to the kitchen when I'm done. A few days ago I hopped into a nice hot bath and bumped into my smoothie cup while stretching out my arms, except this cup was heavy. Heavy like it's completely full. I figured I must had left it there from the day before. Was it still safe to drink? I thought I'd take a small sip and find out. Turns out it wasn't my smoothie cut after all, it was a large bottle of shampoo. * And for those who haven't heard this one yet, the road in front of the dance club we go to on weekends is under construction so we have to park a few blocks away in a residential neighborhood. I don't mind at all, I enjoy walking. My wife holds my left hand and I hold my cane in my right. My wife is mesmerized by the back and forth sweeping motion of the cane. She can't take her eyes off of it. Tall guy, residential neighborhood, low hanging branches, BAM! I need her to tell me when to duck but she's looking down at the tip of my cane instead of in front of my head. When we get to the door it looks like she beat the snot outta me.
thatawkwardcosplayer12 points1y ago
Shout out to when I poured a whole cup of salt into my flour cause I thought I had used the sugar container 😭😭
princesspapercut2 points1y ago
Oh no! Reminds me when my husband (he's the blind one) gave the cat pumpkin puree instead of wet cat food. "Why isn't he eating his food?!"
EffectiveYak011 points1y ago
Walking around not realizing I'm wearing my shirt inside out.
One time my dad was pouring me a glass of water and I prematurely moved the cup away not realizing he was still pouring it. Ended up watering the floor. We both got a good laugh, though.
letspaintthesky3 points1y ago
>Walking around not realizing I'm wearing my shirt inside out.
Did that once.
One time, I went out with my pants inside out. Thankfully, not on the same day :L
Altie-McAltface11 points1y ago
Put chocolate syrup on my fries instead of bbq sauce. It actually tasted great in the end. I also can’t tell chocolate chip cookies from oatmeal raisin until I touch them and then I have to take it. I hate oatmeal raisin cookies.
JudgeSavings10 points1y ago
i once was atempting to find the stares in my school, comming out a hallway with a set going up and a nother down, i had to go up, but i could only find the set going down, and following the path that would help me didnt work, i just kept trying until someone whent up and i followed them to where i herd the stares at, dont ask why no one helpped, its normal for me that i get ignored, evne when i clearly need help, my braillest did ignore me cause i gotta be more indipendint, wasnt late though
FDIOWA505017 points1y ago
Recently my wife and I went to Red Robin. We had our burgers and fries, paid the tab and went to leave. I was walking through the restaurant with my cane and walked right into the kitchen. I hear "HEY!" You better get out of here before we put you to work! Opps, we all had a good laugh. My wife came back looking for me. I think I embarrassed he.
LID9197 points1y ago
My buddy will never stop giving me shit for the time I only shaved the right half of my face.
RedditForBlind2 points1y ago
I've done that, though on purpose. I went back in the living room and it took a while for my friends to realize, because I was sitting on a chair with my unshaved profile towards them.
NinjaHiccup6 points1y ago
Dimly lit Japanese restaurant. I take a bite of sushi that had what I thought was avocado stuck to it. It was actually a giant chunk of wasabi. I was with my boyfriend at the time, and we hadn't been dating long enough for me to want to admit what I'd just done. So I actually ate it. When you eat that much wasabi at once, you can literally feel the heat coming out of your ears like in a cartoon.
SeeSawPodcast [OP]2 points1y ago
This made me laugh so much! I did this recently but with horseradish thinking it was mayo! Ruined my meal and hurt the face
OutWestTexas6 points1y ago
One time I started chatting with a life-sized cutout person at the grocery store.
RedditForBlind1 points1y ago
this is too good
RandinoB5 points1y ago
Not fully blind here but this happened to me. I was giving a presentation to some company big shots and some state legislators. Breakfast was provided.
I take a doughnut off the table and sit down at my seat, only to realize then that it was a bagel. Instead of just being a man and getting up and toasting it, I pretended I like dry untoasted bagels. And I had to eat it, because I couldn’t waste food in front of VIPs!
mdizak4 points1y ago
Will never forget grocery shopping with my BF at the time. I'd feel around the bags of pasta and grab a few I wanted, while my BF was off in another aisle grabbing some things.
Being the helpful guy I am, I'd walk over, find our cart, and proceed to throw the bags of pasta into our cart. A few seconds later I'd hear my BF whisper in my ear, "honey, that's not our cart", haha.
I guess there were a couple middle aged women standing there looking quite confused as to why some white guy is throwing bags of pasta into their cart. :-)
nullatonce3 points1y ago
I have some sight, enough for a reason to turn on lights, but not enough to notice that i haven't curtained my windows. Thank god i behaved.
letspaintthesky3 points1y ago
I once thought a cute boy was checking me out at the supermarket, then realised it was a cardboard cut of of Harry Styles from One Direction.
I walked straight into it and apologized, before realising it was not only a cardboard cut out, but the SAME cardboard cut out I'd just mistaken for a person TWO MINUTES BEFOREHAND!
And no, his cute friends weren't 3D either :L
Edit: On the plus side, they weren't laughing at me
RedditForBlind3 points1y ago
I was younger, but older than you would expect, say mid teenager. I was at Wal-Mart with my brother and there was this box with a giant pile of large plushies. I started petting one and I was telling my older brother how soft they were. He seemed especially in a hurry to leave and go explore the rest of the store. I insisted that he should touch one as I kept petting the plush, still in disbelief of how soft it was. After a bit I just gave up and followed him in other isles. He then told me almost dieing laughing that this whole time I had been petting exclusively the crotch area of the big plush and that I was telling him, with many people around "come on, touch the plush it's amazing"
r_12352 points1y ago
In a shopping mall, I was standing waiting for my folkes to finish their shopping. Then, I see this guy standing near by, I say, hi, do you see any place near by where I can sit? The guy, just stands, and doesn't say anything. I am thinking, How rood, the guy isn't even replying. Then, thinking he might be having earbuds or something in his ears, I reach out to tap on his sholders, accept my hands touch a cold surface of a huge mirror that the shopping mall had at some places. After that, I quickly look around, wondering if anyone saw me chatting to my own reflection.
TechnicalPragmatist1 points1y ago
I see enamoured by yourself hahahahaha! :D *kidding*
TechnicalPragmatist1 points1y ago
I was doing a video session with a guy. I am totally blind with no light perception and it was afternoon very near evening.
This was a recorded thing on his blog youtube channel.
Guy later writes well she is blind and it got dark there so I pulled the video component from this typing video. Then I realized I did this interview and neglected to turn on the lights hahaha! Oh wait. Sighted people are watching this oh yeah…… maybe I should have turned on lights shouldn’t I?
This one is more funny maybe?
I was wanting some soy milk very thirsty. Earlier I had fetched a bowl maybe it was for fruit that I didn’t end up eating but it was still on the counter. I fetched a ceramic cup and the paper milk carton full of soy. I found the container or a container, looks like it. So I started to pour. Put my finger in there it filled up and okay. Done. Great. So I capped the soy carton and put it back in the fridge, I went and picked up the cup ready to drink.
Buuuuuuut! Waaaaaait…… there was nothing there, nothing inside.
Oops I just poured myself a bowl of milk. So I drank out of the bowl.
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