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From: Carla.Campbell@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Carla Campbell)
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Subject: Re: Lack of Humor is the worst disability
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Date: 17 Jan 90 15:39:36 GMT
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 AP> York. The bus driver looked at me and said, "Where's your 
 AP> seeing eye dog? Aren't you the lady that lives in Perry, New 
 AP> York?"

I'm sure I mentioned here that while I was at grad school with my now
friend Cheryl, who is also blind, we were frequently mistaken for one
another: despite the fact that I use a dog, she a cane, that I am
caucasian, while she is black, that I was there a year before she
arrived and that we are totally different, personality-wise. (I'm loud
and obnoxious, while Cheryl is quiet and obnoxious.) We concluded, at
one point, that it was because we are both five feet seven inches tall
and share the same initials.  She , too, was once asked where her dog
was by a man who saw us both on a daily basis.  She repied that she had
no dog, and the man insisted that she did! She finally gave up and siad
something like "oh, it died.", I think.

We got one another's mail and even exam results. The final straw came
when we went down to vote in the past presidential election. We'd both
registered separately, and went to vote separately. When I arrived, the
woman assisting me scanned down the list of registered voters in the
presinct, looking for "Carla Campbell" and said"You're Cheryl Cameron?".
I nearly died laughing, and had a difficult time explaining to her why
it was so funny that she'd accidentally read the name below my own.
(turned out our names were next to one another on the list since they
are close alphabetically and our addresses were similar, as we both went
to Fletcher.)

It can be very frustrating.  The year before Cheryl arrived, I was often
confused with a fellow student who is deaf. Go figger.

... Happiness is a warm modem.

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