Walking beside some disaffected yoofs sitting on a green, I overhead one young man boasting about his plans to learn guitar, but he didn't know which "air" guitar he wanted to buy.

His mates fell all about laughing at him. He was a bit nonplussed.


When I was taking my uni education I was doing courses at 2 colleges quite distant from each other. Fellow student in my Women in Lit course lived in the area of one college and I lived in the other. She asked if she could get a lift to my local college. It turned out our classes and and when we needed to be at them did not coincide so I could not provide lift. End of the conversation she said.. "Well thanks anyway, I'll see you around." to which I quipped, "Well no you won't Debbie. You're blind. Maybe you'll hear me. I sure as shit hope you don't smell me." She fell apart laughing. Said no sighted friend had ever been so candid and at ease with her blindness.

That was cool.