File this under You Don’t See That Every Day: Amy and I took the advantage of the beautiful weather last night with a long walk across downtown. As we made our way home down Nicollet, we came across a blind lesbian couple and their two seeing-eye dogs. Nothing strange about that. Then I noticed what they were doing: asking a passerby to take their picture. As they posed, one of them said, “we try to have one taken at least once a year.”
We passed them, and I looked at Amy with an amazed expression on my face. She laughed, “just don’t say anything.” But I had to! How could I just ignore that? I don’t think it’s insensitive or politically incorrect of me to ask what is the purpose of those photographs? It was a completely surreal moment, and it frankly made the night.
Nicollet must have changed quite a bit since I sprained my ankle there years ago if it’s crawling with blind lesbian couples. Is that really not strange??
But did you ask? And what did they say? On a related note about people with apparent disabilities doing things you wouldn’t immediately expect - did you see the story in the recent Wired about the guy with no legs who might make the South African Olympic track team?