The bus doors opened this morning, and a woman stepped on to the bus. She was obviously blind; had a cane, and dark glasses, and was feeling around with her hand.
In a friendly, polite, and loud voice she asked the driver, 'do you go to Burwood?'
He looked at her, shook his head, didn't say a word, then looked forward again.
'Yes??', she asked, still polite.
'No!', he snapped, irritably, and started closing the door.
I guess it was fair enough for him to be angry at her. I mean, sure, she was blind, but she should have been at least able to sense him shaking his head, surely. Don't blind people have sonar or something, like bats? It was a bit rich expecting him to actually speak one word. The nerve.
Violence is not the answer... mostly. But this guy really deserved a bit of a beat down.
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
6 comments:
I'm with you Benno. Moost of the time common decency presents itself but in situations like that, nothing excuses that moron from obscene behaviour like that. We need to travel the buses in a posse and start dealing out blows when the time is right.
Interested to know. Would you ever interject? I would find it hard not to in a situation like that. Being blind is such a tragic loss of the most rewarding of senses but to then venture out into the world with that sort of disability and have to encounter that shit is wrong. i really would have struggled to not say something.
yeah, I would be up for joing a possee. Bring it.
I was close to interjecting, and regret that I didn't.
Catching the bus always leaves me feeling a bit down...you see displays of very inconsiderate human behaviour. This morning none of the elderly or the mothers with babies could sit due to the young people taking front seats with their BAGS!
AY
I once caught a bus from Broadway to Leichhardt. When I got on there was a blind girl sitting up the front. When we got to Norton St she asked the driver "are we at Sydney Uni yet?"
He'd forgotten all about her and she had to catch another bus, back to the Uni.
It made me feel so sad for her. To go out into the world, so reliant on others is very brave, and to be let down like that, so frustrating.
AY-- yeah, apparently bags are people too..
Bonnie-- That's awful. It is pretty sad to think of people who really have no option but to trust society in general, in order to get around, and then society can't just do the bare minimum in looking out for such people. It would be so little work for us, but would be so helpful to the person..
What astounds me about these people I encounter is that they don't ark up, or seem bitter at people's stupidity, but rather seem pretty patient, and resigned to the fact that they'll be stuffed around.
I hope those bags have tickets...:(
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