So I was home over the Labor day weekend visiting my family and on Sunday, they had some friends over for a cookout. One of the couples cares for the husbands brother as he blind. The blind man's name is Uncle Bob. ( honest)
So Bob is pretty easy company because he wears his head phones and listens to baseball or reads some braille ESPN, all from the comfort of a rocker. Now, mentally, Bob is fully able but I have to imagine the blindness has created significant social isolation. As a result, Bob says some pretty funny shit. He always just kind of talks and you never know if he is responding to his head phones or something in the conversation.
My favorite was last summer at the fourth of July party, I was telling people that story about the sham-wow guy who got in trouble with the hooker that bit his tongue and out of no where, at completely the right time, Bob chimes in with "EWWW". Maybe someone struck out, maybe he heard the story, there is really no way to know.
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