Blind People

Have you ever noticed how blind people always seem to know where they are going? How do they know when to cross the street? One thing you don't see blind people doing is walking off in random directions, bumping into things.

I saw it the other day. I'm coming home from work and at the bus stop on 11th street next to the Embassy Suites, about seven blind folk file off the bus. I begin to think about how they always know exactly where they are headed, and wondering whether or not one of them is Dare Devil, when all of a sudden, an older lady walks into the back of an SUV in the valet parking area of the hotel. I think about how odd, yet funny, that was, but no sooner do I look up to see another blind, this time younger female, stuck on a branch of one of the bushes.

This is beginning to crack me up. As I'm heading towards the crosswalk, another blind guy started crossing the street way before the crosswalk, and continued by almost moving diagonal through the intersection. Now I'm in a gaggle of the remaining blind people so I cover up my face. Yeah, it didn't dawn on me. I also didn't want them to hear my laughing.

I was telling this story to Paul H. Clark that night and he said it was like something out of Seinfeld. Someone would have caught me laughing and started telling me how immature I was. Then, one of the blind ladies would have started crying. And Kramer's parents would have ended up being blind.

It's strange how funny the blind can be.