Blind leading the blind
On its website, the National Federation of the Blind claims to have 50,000 members. All of them were walking in front of my car this morning.
They're having their national convention here this year and started off with a morning parade....during rush hour, weaving and tapping their walking sticks all through downtown. It was quite a sight.
I'm not even gonna pretend that was funny.
I have no problem with parades, even ones that I have to roll slowly behind. But for an event that shuts down at least 4 of the main streets during the morning commute, wouldn't it have been nice of the city to announce it in the newspaper last night? I know Atlanta gets lots of conventions, but most of them don't parade around, leaving a cacaphonous tap tap tap in their wake.
The sticks must really help, though, because all but one stayed on the parade route. He wandered off, figured out he was at the opposite sidewalk curb about 30 seconds later and turned around back to the route. It was almost like a scene out of a movie I'd write if I was going to write one about thousands of blind people on a parade. Unreal.
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