-42 The day a blind man sees. The first thing he throws away is the stick that has helped him all his life. amirite?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Never throw away a good hittin stick

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Especially when it's a sealed katana

by AssistanceFluid2452 1 week ago

Blind Fury reference?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Zatoichi reference…much better than blind fury

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Ryūjin Jakka?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Or Benihime

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I was going to say, I would keep the stick as a reminder, the reminder being - Never take your gift for granted.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

mamma come here quick And bring me that lickin' stick

by Outside_Adagio 1 week ago

I dont think OP has met many blind people

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I don't think OP has met many men! We don't throw away perfectly good sticks!

by jairoosinski 1 week ago

We go and smack leafs from low hanging branches

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Oh god, I was literally doing this at my kindergarten the other day as the kids went home

by wgreenholt 1 week ago

Can't not laugh while picturing the kindergarten professor taking it out on a tree as kids get picked up by their parents in the background.

by Wilson91 1 week ago

I'm seeing a Chris Pratt, Andy from Parks & Rec, type swinging at the leaves furiously with the joy of a child. I walk up "Hey, here to pick up my kid" they pause ever so briefly to say "Uuuh, oh, right…uuuumm I think that's yours over there" immediately returns to leave thrashing and giggling.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

We crunch dead leaves beneath our feet

by Anonymous 1 week ago

We only throw a perfectly good stick if it's for a good dog to fetch.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I don't think he's met any good sticks. I mean…a good stick goes a long way.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Fr I still point out good sticks on the ground. I'll demonstrate: Me: Ooh! points at stick That's a nice stick. Wife: oh yeah it is! Me: happy I hope that helps clear it up.

by AssociationOk3631 1 week ago

You can use the stick for something else.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yea why would a blind man throw his gun. Also why would he have it in the first place.

by Sad-Particular-8662 1 week ago

Range shooting is perfectly safe for a reasonable blind person, the blind surfer on YT has a few videos about it.

by kozeyzackery 1 week ago

I'm trying to figure out if it's maybe a super deep metaphor?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If I had already been blind once it'll could happen again. You better believe I'm keeping my stick.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It'll

by DeviceLow 1 week ago

Would he be throwing away his seeing guide dog as well?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

But they keep bringing his stick back with themselves.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

lmaoo

by Jayne41 1 week ago

Throw 'em all away! I'll take the dog

by Gusikowskiollie 1 week ago

This reminds me of the time I had to throw away a large garbage can. It took me a few garbage day attempts to get them to take it. Even if you put a sign on it that says "This garbage can is trash, please take it," it still sounds like they want them to empty it. I eventually had to cut it up into pieces with a reciprocating saw and put it inside another garbage can.

by mertzjoelle 1 week ago

Of course not Those can be recycled, you place them in the green bin

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Sight has returned. Yeet the dog.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Instructions unclear: Dog has returned, yeeted my eyeballs.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

"Fetch boy!"

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Well yeah, you gotta return the rental

by Pure_Treacle_7883 1 week ago

If a blind person spontaneously [re]gained full vision, could and how would the dog go to being a normal dog without the service responsibility anymore?

by Big_Phone 1 week ago

The blind person should give the dog to another blind person. They will probably keep the dog because they've bonded. Source: I had cataracts and then surgery. Dogs are really expensive though and my condition was temporary.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

He better let go of the leash before he throws the stick

by Anonymous 1 week ago

turn that bitch into chili immediately

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'd keep the stick as a memorial

by Optimal_Assistant831 1 week ago

He learned to walk with the stick. He'd need it for a while until he learns to adjust.

by Emotional-Tomato 1 week ago

It made me blind. What did you just say?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It made me go deaf. WHAT DID YOU SAY?!!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

How do you do the bold text??

by Anonymous 1 week ago

ctrl + B on the keyboard

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Dammit. I'm on phone app.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

On the phone is **bold**

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Awesome! THANKS

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If you use just one you get italics as well

by elviefeest 1 week ago

Yeah that one I use often. I just don't know all the tricks as there isn't a manual showing all the tricks to do.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah this is cringe

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Same.

by Murky_Truth8448 1 week ago

Yeah, we're reaching Facebook Motivational group levels here

by Logical-Writer 1 week ago

Good idea, I'll do the same right now

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I hope you recover from this 🙏

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You're adding to the fanfare

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Someone pooping in the middle of the trumpet section is not "adding" to the fanfare. This isn't corporate marketing, not all attention is good attention.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Godspeed good sir, Godspeed.

by alethagraham 1 week ago

What's your point? I genuinely do not understand what you are trying to say

by Ohettinger 1 week ago

"I am 14 and this is deep"

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If someone gets LASIK they throw away their glasses surprisedpikachu.jpg

by Some_Ad_4051 1 week ago

Once you reach your destination, you throw away the tools/people that helped you get there in the first place, instead of cherishing them for the value they gave you through your journey... I guess..?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I think he's being deep and means "even if you help someone their whole life, when they no longer require your services, you're trash to them" or the inverse of that lol

by Longjumping_Chef6401 1 week ago

This is not Facebook.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

not remotely true. people who see their whole life build up a vision based playbook for navigating the world. Your depth perception & ability to effortlessly look at a flight of stairs & know exactly what balance & pressure to apply to navigate it is learned behavior. blind people learned that through touch. when they get vision restored, they don't automaticallly see the same thing as you. they often continue to navigate w/ touch as their primary effort w/ vision as an aid that's learning the things you began to learn when you were a baby.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

i think they.ll keep it, like a blacksmith keeps its hammer after he becomes noble to remember where he left off in a kind of way

by Wolffsadie 1 week ago

I don't think he'd be able to chuck it. He'll never have seen the horizon to set his balance.

by Beneficial-Tutor6388 1 week ago

Blind people who gain vision late in life can't see almost at all. it takes a while for the brain to develop the visual cortex, and if your brain is already done developing you have a problem

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This feels like a metaphor some dude who just got famous uses on his hometown high-school sweetheart when they break up.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Oxymoron alert! OP is a moron using oxygen.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I don't know man I still have my first stuffed animal that helped me through my entire childhood and I'm 30

by Sporerzora 1 week ago

What makes you think that he would throw away the stick?

by SprayFun 1 week ago

this was a line from friends when joey was impotent and during his impotent period he was pleasuring his girlfriend orally. when his impotentcy ended he was asked if he would continue performing cunnilingus and replied: when a blind man regains his sight, does he still walk with a white cane.

by Constant_Cut7593 1 week ago

I don't know about you, but if I were in that situation, I would have a plaque mounted on the wall to display my faithful stick companion as if it were a heirloom sword.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I think they'd likely keep the cane. Those canes cost a couple hundred bucks, and it could still be useful in the future

by MineOne4336 1 week ago

Nah man. People seeing for the first time have no idea what they are looking at. Their brain has to learn.

by Positive_Wear_2135 1 week ago

Daredevil can see but he still uses a stick. Checkmate.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Nah, why let ppl know you can see

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Demonstrably not true, blind people who regain vision often keep those things just laying around or as decoration.

by kozeyzackery 1 week ago

Mmmm, I don't know, I think if I was totally blind, then could suddenly see I'd hang my stick up in a place of honor, like a favorite guitar or something.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Confucius says, man who stand on toilet is high on pot

by Anonymous 1 week ago

No longer bound by the crutch that has held you back

by Wild-Campaign 1 week ago

In your imagination perhaps.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I got LASIK 4 years ago and I've still not thrown away my glasses

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If I was in a wheelchair and I learned to walk again, what do you want me to do, enshrine the wheelchair?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Milk it for all it's worth and keep getting good parking spaces.

by laurianne12 1 week ago

I have a hiking stick I've only used twice and I'd be damned if I ever throw it away

by Laurelhamill 1 week ago

Or, more likely, put it in a shadowbox and hang it on the wall as a lifelong treasure

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I help you but you never help me!

by LeavePractical 1 week ago

I dunno about that, but I do recall when I got lasik to correct my vision. My good eye was 20/500, and I had worn glasses for like 30 years. At some point in the process of getting the laser surgery, you take off your glasses for the last time. The nurse or a technician or someone asks you if you want to donate them. That's a really strange moment. You picked those frames out carefully, you needed those lenses, and now they are junk you can't use.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I donated mine with a smile. They were really good frames and had transition lenses. Now I can just buy a cheap pair of sunglasses and have no problem. It's definitely surreal of how quickly the change is with Lasik. I went from horribly near sighted and practically blind without my glasses to 20/15 vision within hours. The liberation feels incredible.

by Illustrious_Joke_772 1 week ago

Oh yeah, same, it just felt so strange. Years have passed, and I need driving glasses now, but it's so much better.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Shouldn't the stick be allowed to retire after all those years of hard work?

by Ornjayde 1 week ago

The stick is happy he helped his student so many years and now he's able to move on, just like a teacher would!

by Vegetable-Trainer 1 week ago

I would keep it, maybe add a nice cloak, and just walk around with a freaking staff like a badass

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I feel bad for a hypothetical stick now.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Why throw away the stick you can use it for fishing

by Willdamian 1 week ago

they probably keep it.

by ryann29 1 week ago

Great metaphor…applies to many things in life. You are the most sought after person until they need you.

by Xhettinger 1 week ago

The day pigs learn to fly they'll cut their legs off

by delphadubuque 1 week ago

Mmmmmmmmmairbacon

by Anonymous 1 week ago

And people who walk again don't keep their wheelchairs. People who hear again get rid of their hearing aids. My dad had his vision corrected so he threw away his glasses, something he's worn since he was a child! Oh the drama!

by Murky_Truth8448 1 week ago

I definitely don't think that would happen. They would keep it as a memory

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This reminds me of the imagery of the harkonen burning the corpses at the begining of dune 2, then at the end the fremen are now burning corpses, disregarding the water they would have so desperately collected.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Hey OP check out a movie called The Ticket (2016).

by Antique_Ticket_8255 1 week ago

Na, I get emotional attached to objects I had for a long time. I would keep that stick forever.

by Big-Decision6632 1 week ago

Wouldnt that cause balance issues? Vision to no vision is a big hop.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You do realise that blindness can be a spectrum? I imagine someone who had a sight restoration procedure (if they even exist?) it may not return 100% sight.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Ah yes, the age old tale of a blind person who gets their sight at some point later in life. Doesn't it usually go the other way? Either born blind or lose sight at some point.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This is literally facts <3

by Any-Fly7606 1 week ago

Why would they throw it away? They should keep pretending they are blind and use it and see if people are signing about them behind their back.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I doubt this very much

by Effective-Remove 1 week ago

As he throws it away, he says " why didn't anyone tell me it had "my little pony" characters painted in it!"

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I found a really good walking-stick. Light but sturdy with perfect height. Then I let it in my boss shop and I can't find it anymore one month later. It make me sad a little bit and I'm not blind.

by Forestshields 1 week ago

That's not always true even when it's just a stick, but I think it's much less true for people. It can seem that way because we get used to filling a certain role but independence doesn't necessarily mean abandonment.

by Moist_Cat_9434 1 week ago

They probably had a few sticks over their life

by SpellCute 1 week ago

I'd keep walking with mine to either be left alone, get special treat or hit an idiot.

by laurianne12 1 week ago

I honestly don't think they would; most would probably keep it out of sentimentality.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

What are you, an autistic fortune cookie?

by Mdickinson 1 week ago

First time close to a fire... How's he gonna roast his marshmallows?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The stick didn't "help" him. He helped himself, with the aid of a stick.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The day a clerk gets calculator. The first thing he throws away is the abacus that he been using all his life

by dooleycletus 1 week ago

So should I be putting my baby diaper on a plaque and framing it on a wall after learning how to piss into a toilet?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'm 14 and this is deep

by claudieroob 1 week ago

If the stick lasts you a lifetime, it's not been helping much.

by Slow-Ad 1 week ago

Don't know if this is factual, Mr philosophy degree.

by FamousPick4667 1 week ago

Nah I would still use/keep the stick just because and also see

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Someone (Oliver Sacks?) noted that a number of blind people who did gain their sight (usually through congenital cataract surgery) reverted to walking with a cane and ignoring their visual input because their brains were simply not used to processing it.

by Moist-Rooster-8126 1 week ago

Same as teenagers and parents.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Why do you think this? People keep their baby blankets all the time. People keep stuff they don't use anymore because it was once an important part of their lives

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Nah I would probably hang it on a wall ~

by Anonymous 1 week ago