and all of us here Brother Cliff are glad you were Exposed   to the 
rest of the world   . Makes a person feel good if you tried. Now I bet 
you have  a good  bit of wooden handled screw drivers in your lot and 
that is good too.  I am out of here in a few mimnutes up u and away. Lee

 
On 
Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 09:51:45PM 
-0500, clifford wrote:
> Dear List members:
>     I was in a chat room on a site for blind folks and their friends, and the 
> subject turned to the events of the day.  My first wife and I engaged in some 
> spring cleaning in November, and we can not figure out whether we are behind 
> several months, or ahead several months.  In any event, I was commenting 
> about my collection of screw-drivers, which has gotten out of control, and I 
> am telling all of my friends and family that this Christmas need not involve 
> screw-drivers.
>     One of the participants on the site asked me,  "what would a blind person 
> do with a screw-driver".  I explained that I had disassembled a chair today 
> and reassembled the good parts from two chairs to make one good one.  This 
> gentleman apparently has not been exposed to handyman activities at all.  
>     While I don't perform as many tasks as I did as a younger man, I am 
> astounded at the lack of opportunity some blind folks have.  Their parents, 
> teachers, and friends have protected  them too much, in my country boy's 
> opinion.
> 
>                 Yours Truly,
> 
>                 Clifford Wilson 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> 

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