Not to be allowed near money

[mrissa]

I took timprov out for lunch today. I handed the waitbeing a credit card. It had my extremely femmey name on it. She brought it back and handed the slip to T. to sign.

Then I came home. The doorbell rang, so I went pattering down the stairs to answer it. It was the Schwann's man. "Hi, are your parents home?" He saw from the look on my face that this is the wrong question, so he amended it: "Or, y'know, the homeowners?" "I own this house," I said very quietly. He gulped. "I'm sorry! You look so young!"

ARRRRRRGH. Apparently I am not to be let near money, because I am too much of a wee little girl to handle it.

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I'm even dressed decently today, too, in one of the little black skirts I wore to Minicon and stockings and a green top and an elisem necklace. It's not like I had my hair in braids and was wearing a college T-shirt and a pair of soccer shorts, for heaven's sake. And I handed her the credit card. And she was a woman herself.

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Comments

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

And then he described his folding system. Several clerks seemed surprised that he had a system at all.

There is a very good folding system that most blind people use for currency. It saves a lot of time and trouble.

But it doesn't excuse being polite and saying, "How would you like to handle this?"

And really, that's all I'm looking for.

It gets tedious being a walking, talking PSA for the Visually Impaired, but at the same time, if I don't handle the ackward situation then and there, I'm just setting it up to be the same situation for the next visually impaired person. The fact is, most people want to help you if you have a disability, they just don't know how and how much. So we gently teach them, one person at a time.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes, being the token minority can be a PITA no matter which minority it is.

In the future your personal digital assistant will beam information to their personal digital assistant, and no one will be required to think about empathizing with another human being. Oh, wait, that's not how it'll go....