A blind couple sat behind me on a bus .. who would be blind enough to marry a blind girl?
.. a blind man indeed. He sat by the window while she sat next to him. A proximity that would otherwise raise eyebrows in the eyes of the world. She asked random questions like what is the color of the lentil she was eating and asked if it tasted any better if the colors changed. The man partially blind exclaimed in pride that he knows what the color looks like cos he remembers green when he could see the trees. She wanted to clarify if they were on the right bus , he was confident about the route it took. The could smell a bakery on the way and wondered what was being cooked . They knew where the bus took a turn by the way that it shook.
The questions they asked were something that I would not . Why would they want to know the time its always dark , what time of the day would it be but the night for the blind. She sang a tune with every note in its place. He counted money holding the notes very close to his face. They identified a man with the sound of his voice . They took longer to count the number of steps out of the bus . The driver had no patience to see that they were blind , he almost started the bus while they were in mid air. they had to scream to be heard and the driver stopped to take a look at them. They got down at their destination. The world is one place but they had to get back home. I think they did, I really hope so ... Well.. I have never been told that the blind can actually lead the blind :)
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