It's amazing the things you don't think of thinking about. I never thought about how anyone can hail a cab.
Today I saw the most amazing thing as I was riding the bus home. This woman stood on an island during rush hour traffic in downtown Chicago and at first it looked like she was a drum majorette holding a baton in her hand punching it up and down in the air... but the longer I stared the more my eyes became accustomed to her antics. She wasn't just standing there with a stick in her hand conducting the traffic as her marching unit, she was using her cane to hail a cab. This was a blind woman standing and doing what anyone with their vision would do (sans cane... or not, who's to say, eh?). For some unknown reason it just never entered my mind that a blind person would or even could hail a cab. HOW is she going to know if the cabby is or will be honest? How will she know if she is delivered to her desired location? HOW did she even know to stand where she did to hail that cab?
It's a good thing she couldn't see me staring at her. I was fascinated, amazed and couldn't take my eyes off this transaction I have taken for granted so many times because of my fully functioning eyes.
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