Jack's complete lack of observation

[friendofjimmyk]

(This is my brain burp....if it does not belong here, mods please move it)

Today, I manuevered a menu closer to a customer to point out an item....

...the customer was blind.

As soon as his friend advised me that he could not see, it was then that I noticed the cane closely associated with the visually challenged.

DOH!


I felt so silly!

But they both tipped generously!

[LillFilly]

That makes me wonder about the big, bold signs on the doors of some fast food places that state 'braille menus available upon request.'

And the braille at the drive-thru atm. That just makes me worry!

[Argus]

The sign on the door is useful if the blind customer arrives with a seeing friend.

As for the braille on a drive-through ATM: http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=576

[Dips]

As for the braille on a drive-through ATM: http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=576

I'll have to describe that cartoon to my blind co-workers. They've only heard that ATM joke about a million times.

[Ghel]

My friend Jim (er, Jimmy S. ) is blind, but it's not obvious at first glance. He doesn't use a cane (he knows how to use one, but he gets along just as well without it), he doesn't wear sunglasses, and he doesn't do that head-bobbing thing. If he goes anywhere, it's either with his sighted girlfriend or one of his sighted friends. So in the situation you mention, one of us will read the menu to him. Even if the place has a braille menu, it's quicker to read the menu to him than to wait while they dig for the braille one.

When someone realizes that he's blind, he gets a lot of the kind of reaction you must have had: embarrassed apologies.

Funny thing is, Jim collects blind jokes. One of my favorites:

How does a blind skydiver know when to pull the cord?
Slack on the leash.

We also have a running list of "Things not to get Jim for Christmas." Items include flashlights, a subscription to Playboy, or a camera.

[Soulstealer]

We also have a running list of "Things not to get Jim for Christmas." Items include flashlights, a subscription to Playboy, or a camera.

They should come out with a braille version of that magazine.

[Ghel]

They should come out with a braille version of that magazine.

Actually, Jim informs me that there is a braille version of Playboy, but it's useless without tactile pictures.

[Argus]

A braille version of Playboy was one of the jokes in "Robin Hood: Men in Tights".

[Hyena Dandy]

Actually, Jim informs me that there is a braille version of Playboy, but it's useless without tactile pictures.

Hey, Playboy has good articles.

[gremcint]

The sign on the door is useful if the blind customer arrives with a seeing friend.

As for the braille on a drive-through ATM: http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=576

quite frankly why wouldn't there be braille on drive through atms? They are probably made by the same people who make the other atms and those have braille so why go through all the trouble of setting up a complete separate manufacturing process for the drivethrough atms to remove something that doesn't hurt anything.

I always thought that was a dumb joke.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Hehe...

Braille Faille

[Dips]

The person who put that caption on the picture failed. The braille is 100% correct.

It starts with a cap indicator (which indicates that the first letter of the following word is capitalized).

Then the s-t contraction, then e, then v, then i, then e again.

The last name again starts with a cap indicator, then w, o, n, d and the e-r contraction.

It's actually quite refreshing to see an advertiser who educated themselves about braille before using it in advertising. Usually that doesn't happen.