I am the worst blind person.
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Rebecca
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Meg
Yeah, when I’m doing cheers with my family, they take my hand all the time and position it and then let me toast and it feels demeaning
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Calum
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Gordon
I don't understand why so many blind people have these kinds of accidents. If I'm in a situation like that, I'll put my hand out so that the person who is handing me something can see what I'm intending to do so we can be on the same page instead of just reaching out quickly and grabbing for something that I have no idea where they're coming from. when you do that with a hot coffee, someone stands a chance of getting hurt.
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Weird James
Gordon, it’s because I’m selfish.
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Weird James
It’s also because I want to look cool and sighted even though I’m not.
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Weird James
Meg, I feel the opposite way. When people would do that to include me in the toast I found it so limp and flavorless. Like, it’s not real unless I can do it myself. So, I just say “Blind toast blind toast” in a silly awkward way if I feel comfortable with those I’m sitting with and we all feel awkward together as we inch our glasses on the table towards each other and maybe clink. I often just say “Clink.” And then the moment is over and I feel like I was myself instead of swallowed up by the hoard. But, that’s me being sometimes obnoxiously individualistic never wanting to conform always wanting to stand out.
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Weird James
Calum I do that all the time! I hope I am good at noticing when I’m at a house instead of a restaurant. I know I look crazy. Mwahahaha!
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Weird James
Lean into the crazy. We’re weird and we know it.
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Gordon
Well someone got burned pretty good today and I'm sure they'll be talking about it amongst themselves and their coworkers all afternoon. God I hope we don't get another blind person coming in here just grab it for things when they don't even know what they're grabbing for and they don't have a clue what they're doing. That's more than likely what they're saying.
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Sapphire Mermaid
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Weird James
They’ve known me for years so I don’t think so, and I tried to defuse it by joking on myself, but you might be right. Ah well. And, it was irresponsible of me to act that way and you are right that it is a bad look. But hey… it’s not the end of the world. I’ll go back to that coffee shop.
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Weird James
I don’t think he got burned. It hit his shirt. I ight be wrong though. I want to tress again that you are right about me needing to come up with a language to let people know how to give me the cup. That’s why I ended the day by telling them “Put it on the bar.” So there’s no more reaching.
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Weird James
Saphire and crew that is so real. Your mom sounds like a rare breed. It was a bad mistake that the food got ruined, and she wasn’t wrong to be super pissed, but that she came down to the ground means a lot and you all did suffer bc less Christmas baking, but hey. I heard sighted people knock stuff over too. They don’t want us to think they do, but they do.
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Weird James
Oh yeah your Mac is going to struggle with Ramblio because it’s compiled for the A and M series processors which are different from the Intel processors from those Macs. So Rosetta, the emulation layer, might kick in ty too and run Ramblio anyway but it will be glitch city. And you can’t even stop a recording because of that. So yeah, the Macs are great but they force you to buy a new one in various ways to do the cool things.
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Gordon
I had that happen with an ice cream cone one time, but it just hit the counter and they had to make me a new one. So I was approaching from the bottom, the person let go before I had a hold of it and the whole thing tipped over. It was one of those big tall ice cream cones that was top heavy.
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Weird James
That must have been mortifying. Ice cream is messy and takes time to clean up, not as little time as espresso does
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Gina
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BostonBeanStalk
lol You‘re funny
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BostonBeanStalk
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