Airing my Philthy Laundry

See no evil

Posts have been scarce lately, but there's some stuff in my head that has yet to be written down. When I get some time, it'll happen. Here's a little something to tide you over.

I'm in Jacksonville, FL for the next couple weeks (Coincidently, "Florida" means "Humidity" in Portuguese.) The other night I was sitting outside at a restaurant on the Jacksonville Landing and I noticed the table next to me had 4 blind people sitting with their seeing eye dogs. I sat their marveling at the discipline of the dogs, lying attentively by their owner's sides. As the night went on I noticed more and more blind people walking around (about 25 in all), at several restaurants in the area. I thought there must be some "blind convention" or something, because there were too many for it to be pure coincidence. Finally I noticed a woman walking towards me to appeared to be blind, and she had a convention nametag around her neck. I leaned in, eager to see what the convention name was, and she looked at me oddly and said "hello."

It was at this time that I realized that she wasn't blind, she was just crosseyed.

posted by philthy @ 8:37 PM