So I went yesterday to get my ID replaced because it expires on my birthday. I am a non-driver, so it is just a state ID. My # finally gets called and I went up to the counter and handed the lady my soon to expire ID and said it needed to renew it, because it was about to expire. She didn’t even look at what type of ID it was and filled out the paper work, took my new picture, took my money and said to take a seat and she would call me back up to get the new one.
About five minutes later she calls me up and hands me the ID and says to check it to make sure everything is correct. I handed to it my friend so they could check it for me, and my friend bursts out laughing. The lady had neglected to see the cane in my hand (I’m pretty well blind) and had neglected to see the big NON DRIVER on the old ID. So she had just given me a valid drivers license.
I handed it back to her and said “well I’m blind, and you just gave me a valid drivers license, epic win”. She got all embarrassed and quickly reprinted a state ID for me that was correct.
Such skilled people earning our tax dollars, I had to laugh though. The idea of me on the road……
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….okay, I’m confused now.
You tell us your blind but in your youtube channel, you seem to have no trouble telling us what’s what in some of your videos. Like…in your goodwill shopping video, you state “The lady looked at me funny.”
So…if you’re blind, how would you know things like that?
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Someone can be legally blind, meaning they can’t drive a car, without being totally blind.
If you need glasses, your level of vision without them can be within the legally blind category.
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I call myself blind because my vision is pretty limited, I like it better than visually impaired or low vision. The acuity in my best eye is 20/500. I cannot see faces from more than a foot away, so yes that lady that was looking at me in the check out I do not know what expression she had, but I I could tell she was looking at me, and it was not just one of those glances you get from people at checkouts.
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Yes I am legally blind. The cut off is 20/200 and my best eye is 20/500. I am past the point where glasses serve any purpose aside from sunglasses to block light.
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Fair enough, this was just the first I’ve heard of a person blind enough that she needed a cane but could still read facial expressions.
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Yeah, its complicated to explain because my visual impairment is so odd. I am so light sensitive I travel with the cane outside, because I am physically unable to open my eyes. I have no depth perception, and tend to miss visual details. Faces are very hard for me unless I’m close. For example a friend I have known for years could pass me in the hallway and I would not know it was them unless they said something to me.
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How does a single stressed out employee who was in too big a rush to check an ID for something like that become the “country’s” fault?
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DMV incompetence seems to be fairly widespread though.
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I didn’t. You implied that this one persons mistake was actually caused by the country even though she doesn’t even come close to “running the country”. They were -your- words dude.
and yeah, the DMV has a lot of really stupid people working there, or lazy and I’m more inclined to believe the latter considering just what type of place the DMV is. However, they’re not the first, nor are they the greatest in quantity of people who don’t care about their jobs.
Small claims is far worse. I’ve worked in that, it was hell.
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I think it would be you making yourself look like an idiot, buddy.