Published with permission from client.

I had a wonderful booking this afternoon with a client who’s registered blind.

Inbetween the throes of passion, we took a five minute break for a breather. We started talking about the sensitve issues regarding the able-bodied helping the disabled. In the street, shops, anywhere. He mentioned that whilst it’s always nice to be asked by an able-bodied person whether or not he needs help, it seems some kind-hearted souls sometimes go a little too far.

Like when Mike (name changed to protect his blushes) would be standing at a kerb corner and somebody asking if he would like help crossing the road. And before he could protest he would be whisked across to the other side of the road. Said kind-hearted soul would probably be walking away, happy at completing his good deed for the day, whilst Mike would then be left to have to make his way back across the road to wait for that taxi he was just about to hail.

I laughed when he told me this. It conjured up those Loony Tunes cartoon when scouts would try and help the little old lady across the road, and she’d whack them across the head with her umbrella because now she couldn’t get back to where she wanted to be. I didn’t think things like really happened. Isn’t it such a cliche? But then cliches are such for a reason aren’t they? They were borne from an original situation or idea that has been much over-used or parodied.

*Sigh*. Well, that was my laugh of the day.