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To: SmithL

I have a blind friend - one of the most succesful people I know. His abilities make me forget he is blind most of the time. He does most of the grocery shopping for him and his wife. He pays in cash often, with our current currency.

I guess this idiot judge has never met my friend, who has never found our current currency to be a handicap.

By the way, when he gets change, he makes the person giving him the change count out the bills into his hand. He then knows the sequence and count of each type of bill, in the stack placed in his hand. When he puts the money in his wallet, he folds each different type of bill a little differently. When he needs to pay in cash, he knows, by how he folds his money in his wallet, just which bill(s) are of which denomination, and does not have to ask the cashier to check him.

Of course if some idiot cashier intentional tries to screw my friend, or even just upset his system by intentionally making a mistake - in either the counting of the change or stating an erroneous sequence of the bills - my friend is not ashamed to ask the next cashier to help him out when he offers that cashier a wrong amount. I am sure in his entire life he has encountered unscrupulous persons who took advantage of him. But his Christian faith still gives him a positive outlook and an approach that assumes most people will treat him honestly.

I am sure, in the two hundred years of American history blind Americans have figured many ways to unburden themselves without burdening the country with lawsuits.

The judge is an idiot.


40 posted on 11/28/2006 1:56:41 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Wuli
His abilities make me forget he is blind most of the time.

That reminds me of this very morning, when Fox and Friends had Andrea Bocelli on as a singing guest.

Just as the segment was ending, Doocy had a brain fart and stuck out his hand to shake goodbye.

222 posted on 11/28/2006 3:36:52 PM PST by ErnBatavia (recent nightmare: Googled up "Helen Thomas nude"....)
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