[JustaPatient]

Originally Posted by RetiredTooSoon

People who are blind may still be able to see light and shadows. I know a woman who has a guide dog who has about 7% of her sight-enough that she would have a preference as to whether the lights were on or off.

Up until they took it out I could tell that there was light through my right eye. I couldn't necesarilly tell you were it was coming from but I knew it was there.

[iluvivt]

One of my co-workerslast name is hoar pronounced whore. I was working with her one pm shift and I needed her help and she was not answering her pager, Called the operator and asked her to page so and so whore...... long pause she said I will not and I said oh yes you will that is her name. well a few moments later they paged the wh...... to help me

[lyndamic]

Just in case emotional scars are funny: When I was a 17, I worked as a cashier at Venture (like WalMart or Target, for you young 'uns). Wednesday was senior citizen discount day. All day the elderly had come through my line and rejoiced in their discount.

Late in the afternoon, an older lady came through, and as I rang her up, I asked "Will you be using your SC discount card today?". She said, "What?". I, all smiles, said,"Oh! Didn't you know? Since you are a senior citizen, you get a 10% discount today!". I began getting out the little form for her to fill out, to get her a SC discount card of her very own.

She had an absolute FIT. "Do I LOOK like a senior citizen? Do I? Do I?". It was patently obvious that I had thought so, but I denied it and apologized and apologized. I tried to say that I hadn't really looked at her before I had spoken, but she knew it was a lie because I had been looking her right in the eye with a big, Venture approved smile. She informed me that she was just 50, thank you very much, and I was disrespectful and so hateful, and she couldn't believe I had said that, etc.

She got loud (I was cowering and already in tears), and the manager came over and tried to smooth things out by telling the lady to meet her at customer service for a gift card. The lady eventually started crying, and walked out without her merchandise, or the gift card. :sad:

20 years later, I still think about her sometimes, and feel bad about it. Whenever I tell that story, men always laugh, and women feel horrible for the poor lady.