YOU GOTTA LAUGH

Sometimes a visual impairment takes you down an embarrassing road. You bump into a wall in front of someone. You are eating, and think the food is fixed firmly on your fork, but instead it falls and you drop it onto your lap.. There are a thousand ways you might make a misstep that ends up being slightly embarrassing. But instead of hiding your head and feeling ashamed and embarrassed, just try laughing. OUT LOUD. At yourself.  Just let out a good ole-fashioned guffaw. Because everyone (even sighted people) makes a fool of themselves sometimes. And laughter is good for the soul. So borrow our editor's family motto as your own: Stories are better than dignity. Laugh and the stories below and then shares yours with us.

MISTAKEN IDENTITY

Heidi stepped outside the grocery store and stood with her cart, waiting for her Uber driver to pick her up. A tall woman with long, silver hair stopped in front of her and said, "Hi, Heidi." Heidi thought for a minute, tried to identify the face with her low vision and decided it was her old friend Denise, who she had not seen in quite some time. Same height. Same hair length. Same hair color. She threw her arms around Denise in a warm embrace. "It's soooo good to see you," Heidi said. "How have you been?" "Um...fine, I guess," the lady said hesitantly. "It's good to see you too?" "Well,"  the lady then added, hurrying away. "See you next Saturday at Weight Watchers." "Oh," thought Heidi, "I guess it wasn't Denise after all! I guess it was just a random stranger who is in my Weight Watchers meetings."  Whatcha gonna do? You gotta laugh.

OOPS I AM IN THE wrong bathroom

I noticed when I walked into the bathroom that there weren't any urinals," said Casey. "But I just thought, "Oh, well, some bathrooms are different than others." Casey went into the stall and closed the stall door. No one else was in the bathroom at the time. After a minute in the stall, he heard the tiny voice of a little girl. "Wow, single dad with his daughter, I bet," he thought. But the next voice he heard was an adult female. "Darn it," he said. "I am in the ladies room." He waited patiently until he heard a stall door open, the girl talking to her mother at the sink, the water running as they washed their hands, and then the outside door slamming shut. "Finally," thought Casey. "I am safe to escape!" He quietly opened the door, hoping no other woman would enter while he made his escape. He got all the way to the outside door, pushed it open, and he was face-to-face and eyeball to eyeball with another woman entering the bathroom. Oh well, thought Casey. You Gotta Laugh.