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Yes, I Am - Part 2

Adding a few details missing from the "Yes, I Am" post from a few days ago.

This is my secret - and I've no doubt that I'll regret the words that follow - but here goes...

The missing word from the title of that post is blind. Yes, I Am Blind. Legally blind anyway. It's the sort of thing people don't notice because of the nature of my vision... I'm 20/200 - ish, but I fake it to look as though I'm just like anyone else. I fake it because I can. In fact, I've been faking it for my whole life, so sometimes it's hard not to.

The "Yes, I am" post was as much about my vision as it was about other people's reaction to it - though I never got to writing that part of the story - probably because that's the hardest part to write... but here it is in short form.

A woman asked me out on a date. We had a marvelous time. She then asked me to join her and a few of her friends that saturday for an afternoon around town. We ended up at a restaurant I'd never been to before. I left to use the restroom. On my way back to our table, I got lost for just a moment, though it felt like an eternity. I actually walked right up to the booth they were sitting in yet still didn't see them, so I turned away - only to return to it a moment later.

I can still hear her voice in my head. She said: "You walked right up to us - standing, like, two feet away, and then you turned around... how'd you miss us?"

I'm sure I made something up... who knows what it was.

Later, after my date and I left her two friends, I explained it to her and got the "oh wow, I'd never have known... but I'm glad you told me." blah blah blah.

That was the last time I saw her - a reaction not unexpected.

I'm not judging her though. Believe it or not, I understand.

And that - as Paul Harvey would say - is the rest of the story.