I am in no way a judgmental person, but I am certainly curious. I only pose this inquiry because I really want to know...
The other day, I'm doing this whole mommy thing and shopping for some Band-Aids. And not just any Band-Aids. Because when you're 6, and you have a boo-boo, just plain brownish colored Band-Aids are not good enough.
I grabbed a box of camo-patterned Band-Aids, Transformers Band-Aids and, yes, the regular, plain old Band-Aids (I can think of a couple of some parents who like to cut themselves on protruding nails whilst installing a new hardwood floor, but I digress).
On the Transformers Band-Aid box (and ONLY on this box), there was braille.
That's fine. I'm all for all disabled people being able to recognize what they're purchasing, because I'll be a P.O.'ed person if I needed a fingertip Band-Aid and didn't realize until I got home that I bought Hello Kitty dot Band-Aids. But, why would a picture Band-Aid need braille on it? And not the plain ones? They can't see the Transformers on them anyway, so what's the point? Couldn't you buy just the plain ones and have a good seeing friend just tell you they are Transformers and you wouldn't be the wiser? Maybe cruel, but those Transformer Band-Aids were a full twenty-eight cents MORE than the plain ones. Now that's 28 cents that I'd sacrifice for someone to lie to me about what is pictured on my Band-Aid.
However, I won't even go into the fact that my drive-up ATM has braille on it, and I'll be darned if the metal of the braille is actually rubbed off as if people are using it frequently.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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Braille? Seriously? I guess people who are cutting edge need bandaids, because honestly, what other products at Target or wherever have Braille? If Braille were actually a help to you, you would have to have someone help you to the place where they actually had the one item you could read. And if you had that person with you anyway...
Thanks for giving me a late night giggle!
LOL, you crack me up! I'm giggling at the picture I have in my head. I dont have a logical answer for you!
well now I want to go check out the boxes of Transformer bandaids! LOL :)
I dunno.. but, if it makes you feel any better, I have thought the same thing about the atm DRIVE up window.. shouldn't people who are blind probably not be driving a car? Call me insensitive, but it really is a good question.
I don't get it either, especially at drive up windows. B/c I sure hope that the blind are not driving.
I'm thinking outside the box on this one. You could have a seeing parent and a blind child. If the child became blind after seeing at one point, they would know what Transformers were. If they were never able to see, they still may play with Transformers and know what they are and want the band aids. The drive up ATM thing, IDK. I can understand the walk up because someone would drive the blind person there to get their money but I'm just as stumped on the drive up one. lol Your post was one that fits in the category, things that make you go hmmmm...lol
Those two things are the strangest places to have Braille. I am speechless right now. HMMM
I always wondered that about the braille at ATMs myself. It's not like a blind person (seeing impaired, if I were to be all PC on yo ass)is driving the car thru the ATM, right?
I wonder what the Braille really says...hmmmmmm.
love,
mom
Now I want to know what the braille says. Because I'm betting it doesn't say, "These cost 28 cents more than the plain kind."
LOL, I've always wondered about the braille on drive-up ATM's and how can they read the screen. I know it has braille on the buttons but your prompted by the screen which to my knowledge does not talk????
I have never noticed Braille on any of the products that we buy.
LOLOL My brother is blind. He has been legally blind for years, but was actually having his eye removed (due to infection) at the same moment Chunky Monkey was being born via c/s. Talk about a tough one for my parents!
We have totally had the ATM braille conversation before. The reason it's rubbed off is just from general use of the ATM. Cracks me up though! I can't really explain the band aids though. Maybe for a blind parent, purchasing for kids who CAN see??
I am so happy to hear of people like you who think they get to decide what can be labeled for a blind purchaser and what can not.
Seeing kids of parents who are blind may like fancy band-aids. maybe a parent or two too.
And I'll bet no one here has ever been through an ATM lane in a taxi, eh? No, wait, lets make the blinks ask for help there too. It's noble to help helpless people, eh?
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