Driving to test sight

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Driving to test sight

Postby Green » Tue 26 May 2020 9:48 pm

I'm having to laugh at MPs who believe you can go for a drive to test your sight, lol, optometry out of a job!

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Re: Driving to test sight

Postby Green » Wed 27 May 2020 12:14 am


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Re: Driving to test sight

Postby space_cadet » Wed 27 May 2020 8:02 am

I said to a friend who is also a long cane user but lives in Aberdeen we shouldl both hire a car n use our canes out the windows to indicate, heck we can always say "but DC was only testing his eyes officer" if we get pulled over.
May09 Diagnosed with KC, March 2010 after a failed transplant it has left me legally blind a long cane user (since 2010) who is blind in a once sighted world

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Re: Driving to test sight

Postby Green » Wed 27 May 2020 12:59 pm

Space cadet, that video has now been done!
Also recommend the colourful rants by comedian Russell Kane and spoof political correspondent Johnathan Pie, on YouTube.


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