Yesterday I helped an amply sized blind man cross the street. I was standing at Flinders St station waiting for the pedestrian lights to go green, when a blind guy nearly tripped over another dude who dropped his change. The blind guy, let's call him Ray, then proceeded to shout out ''Can someone help me cross the road?"
Well at least I think this is what he said, cos I did have my iPod on full blast at the time. Everybody standing around him looked down at their feet...duh people, he can't see! Avoiding his gaze makes no difference! I walked over to him and offered him my arm. Well I wasn't gonna hold his hand, he was clutching onto a McDonalds bag and I really couldn't deal with the grease. (See previous blog about touching ANYTHING that isn't myself...ahem)
So the lights changed and we walked over to the tram stop, to catch a tram up St Kilda Road. He said he needed the Glen Iris tram and I said I would take him to the conductor, to make sure they helped him board the correct tram. That kind of got me off the hook of having to wait for his tram, cos I can catch most trams going up St Kilda Rd. I digress boringly...
Anyway the strangest part of helping this young chap was when he started singing along to some cheesy loud music. I thought that was cute. This guy was kinda funny.
Then this morning walking along by myself to the tram stop, I heard the same music again. Gee that's weird I thought, there must be someone playing music this time every morning. Can't they invest in an iPod like everyone else? Then I realised that it was Kate Ceberano's 'Bedroom Eyes' and the music was coming from a scary advertisement featuring Kate in control briefs. Scary leopard print control briefs.
And at that point, I envied the blind dude...if only for a second.
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