Create your own moral!(?) And pin up witch (should be work safe) (763 hits)
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Submitted by Your Mom (View user info) at 2006-10-31 13:02:29 EST
I've never been very good about getting up on time. For about 3 years I worked for a company that ran a shuttle bus to pick employees up from the closest light rail station. It only took about a month of me waving the shuttle down from the side of the road while I was a block and a half short of the actual stop before they just made me my own. Normally bus stops are fantastic places to collect interesting, albeit often scary or health hazardous stories, but under the circumstances my bus stop was boring. It was just me loitering on a corner.
However, I did have one incident there that stuck with me, and tickles me somewhere inside, I just can't really explain why. Maybe you can find the moral. On occasion I'd see a combination of these two men and one woman walk down the opposite side of the street. The woman always rushed and never paid me any notice but sometimes when I was smoking one of the men would call hello across the street and wave. He wasn't after my cigarettes; he just didn't notice me otherwise. None of them did, all three were blind.
Where they were going I couldn't say. I never found a pattern to when and which of them would wander by, but after three years I could recognize them all by face, not just their long red tipped white canes. One particularly nasty morning after a big rain storm all three of them were coming down the street together. The sounds of their chatter and tapping made me look their way across the intersection, the intersection that was flooded feet deep and many feet out from the corner they were walking up to.
Decisions. Growing up in an age of asinine political correctness I don't know what's correct anymore. Somewhere my youthful Girl Scout ideals of helping people that need help got squashed by the knowledge that many people, particularly with challenged needs, are nasty bastards who are going to chew you out for "looking down" on them or some such crap. Is challenged needs even ok to say? God forbid I just said blind. There's a young blond girl at my train station in the morning, I always notice her because she's on the ramp in her wheelchair. I like to call her rollergirl in my head and I know there's some asshat out there who would be offended by that. Anyway...
I decided to suck it up and call out to them. I'm sure they know with their canes when they've hit water and have a very good idea of how deep the water is too, but I can see the damn puddle and I still end up with at least one leg soaked up to my knee every rainy season. Also, I can't imagine a harassment lawsuit addressed to 'sighted girl who smokes on corner,' so I go for it. "Um, hey, the intersection is flooded pretty bad in front of you, you're going to need to go about 15 feet to your left to avoid it." The terror sets in, am I about to be chewed out? They continue walking forward with no response, no fuck off, no thanks, nothing. Finally the two men do start to veer out. But their lady friend, who now has a companion dog that I've never seen before, plows on ahead.
Five seconds later the dog is lifting his head to keep it out of the water and the woman is wading to above her knees with her jeans continuing to pull more water up. As she starts to come out cursing, now wet all the way to her waist, her dry and cozy male counterparts start laughing at her. "That's what you get for not listening, you're blind, you're not deaf!"
None of them said Thank You. But I never got a lawsuit either. And if I ever go blind I'm using the cane, I don't want to fall down a damn sewer grate because my dog is pissed at me.
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Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2006-11-02 10:18:14 EST (#)
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Submitted by Maltese (user info) at 2006-11-02 02:43:21 EST (#)
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Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-11-01 02:21:24 EST (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-10-31 16:25:22 (#)
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FOR THE PICTURE
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Also, Happy Halloween!
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-10-31 16:25:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
FOR THE PICTURE
Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2006-10-31 16:24:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
She's pretty hot.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-10-31 14:56:26 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
Show me your gash!
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-10-31 14:41:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 because I'm a sucker for pin-ups.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2006-10-31 14:12:11 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Any online game I've ever played, which is pretty rare, I've always been "Your Mom". I always liked seeing "XXXX was just fragged by Your Mom..."
Submitted by MadameDestrukt (user info) at 2006-10-31 13:40:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Sicosemen, I don't think that's kosher so I think I'd better not.
Shlongy - I'm actually impressed to only get a -1 from your perpetually disgruntled ass. I admitted from the get go that I wasn't really sure what this post should accomplish, I wasn't particularly trying for humor, just relating a story. But it's ok, I have a Shlongy level joke, just for you. How do you make a little girl cry a second time? Wipe your bloody dick on her teddy bear.
There ya go, happy now?
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-10-31 13:13:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I'd poop in her hat...or your mouth.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-10-31 13:06:24 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
My mom is funnier than THIS.