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[cecimoi]

Sat morning K and I were driving to get breakfast, and as we turned on to University, we saw a woman with a white cane start walking in to the street where there's no intersection right in front of K's car. Well he slams on the brakes, and we sit and watch as she walks further in to the street. I know that if she hits the median and tries to

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[thearchitect]

she's an idiot. you did the right thing. hopefully she had enough vision that she wasn't completely blind when she was crossing. i guess they omitted good manners when she was trained....

you did the right thing.

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[cecimoi]

Yeah, well I did get the outcome I wanted, she changed course and headed back to the sidewalk. I can even justify why she was confused and thought maybe she was at an intersection. All I could think was how scary it must be to be so disoriented that you're in the middle of the street, and I didn't want to leave her with how another car might react to her (honking, etc).

I'd do it again as long as it wasn't her. I'd probably even do it for her, if only because I can't think of any other way to have handled the situation.

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[thearchitect]

i guess slapping her after SHE behaved rudely wouldn't have helped, either? And telling her 'hey, i just washed the car and i don't want your guts all over it!' probably isn't any better.

i'm sure she was feeling vulnerable and scared, but snapping at you was uncalled for...

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[zmary]

You did the right thing. No question. Her lack of gratitude isn't your problem, but her death would have been.

[thenisaid]

She's a doodlebutt. It occurs to me, though, that she thought you were telling her she was in the middle of the street, as in, she was crossing the street and how dare a blind person do that for herself, not "in the middle of the street", as in, "you crossed in the middle of the block and you're about to be street pizza". It could be that when she got to the median and found no sidewalk there, it *finally* dawned on her what you were saying.

It's still *not* okay to be nasty like that, but I can kind of imagine one too many boy scout in her life has helped her across the street when she didn't want to go, and that may make her hypersensitive, so that she was all primed to misinterpret your message.

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[cecimoi]

Yeah I thought of that too. She never actually made it to the median, because I stopped her and turned her back to the sidewalk. And she was walking diagonally so even if it had been an intersection she would have been going caddy corner, but yeah I think I probably could have communicated better.

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[thenisaid]

Oh, well, next time a blind person jumps out in front of your car I'm sure you'll have all your wits about you. ;) Cut yourself some slack! Cut some for me, too, I'm fresh out.

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[cecimoi]

OK! If I can't find any slack, will you take a no-pudge fudgy brownie? Or maybe some ravioli and spinach soup? Slack would probably be best though, huh? Hopefully I didn't use it all up last weekend.