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This wonderful embarrassing moment was sent to me by my beautiful friend Betsy. She lives in Minnesota, and we became friends, after I met her other half, Dan in Accessible Chat. Thanks Betsy for this great moment, besides being funny, I would like to think, that sighted people who may read these stories, might get a little clearer insight into how visually impaired folks try to cope with every day things, which are going on in their lives, and may get a better understanding of how we feel.
I thought I would share the following with you. I don't know if this is my most embarrassing moment, but, when someone mentions "embarrassment", I usually think of this incident.
I used to be married to a pretty nice guy who wasn't too comfortable with my vision loss and treated me like I wasn't losing vision. So, when we went anywhere, if I lost him, which I could , in a heartbeat, he would get very angry with me. So, before we entered any store or any place where we could be separated, I would walk behind him and memorize what he was wearing, just so I would know what to look for, since he was always ahead of me. One day, we went to the grocery store. He didn't like shopping for groceries and was especially testy if I caused him to spend any longer than necessary in the grocery store.
I was walking along behind him, keeping him in my fading vision, when I turned my head to look at something beside me. I turned back and, you guessed it, he was gone! Panicky, I went up the aisle as fast as I could, looking frantically for a man with very curly hair, dressed in cut-off jeans and a white t-shirt. Suddenly, I saw him, ahead of me, bending over and taking something off a lower shelf. I casually walked up behind him, acting like I had never been "lost," and pinched him on his bottom. Suddenly, I was face-to-face with a very startled-looking woman with curly hair and very, very green eyes [my husband's were blue], rimmed with mascaraed eyelashes! I couldn't think of a single thing I could say to her. "Excuse me, I thought you were my husband?" I don't think so! So, I simply turned, walked out of the store and , went to the car.
Now, this is funny. that day., I wasn't so amused.