A month ago a blind woman attacked me with her cane. It was incredible.

I'm doing a street show the other night, and the crowd was good, but a little dead, tiny tiny laughter. As I was building a crowd I saw my saviors, a group of four 30-something black women, who had obviously left the husbands at home. That particular demographic, in my opinion, equals great audience members. Man, no one can enjoy themself like mature black ladies out for a night on the town. Anyway, back to the story... I noticed that one of them was blind, but only subconciously really, you're keeping track of a lot of different things when you are doing circle shows. I did however take it as a huge compliment that a blind woman would "watch" and enjoy my show. So the show keeps going, and these ladies are laughing it up and having a great time, and about halfway through the show, one of those big doubledecker tour busses goes by. I tell a joke every time they go by that goes like this:

"Check this out, it's a sightseeing tour bus for the blind, that's why they tint all the windows.
'To your left we have the Presidio, it's beautiful... I wish you could see it.'"

I look over and see the blind lady laughing hysterically (which warms the cockles of my heart, whatever the !@?@ they are), and just then, her friends give her a push and say "You don't have to take that, GET IN THERE GIRL!" and in she comes, walking a little slow because she's swinging her cane in my general direction for all she's worth. The crowd explodes, it's got to be the funniest moment I've ever been a part of, and it get's better. You've got to understand, she can't see, and my voice, which is all she has to go on, is coming out of an amplifier all the way across the circle from me. She's heading towards it, but from where she's standing, my glass is between her and the amp, and she's making a beeline for it. She's about to go face-first into 15 pounds of broken bottles.

So I leap off of my box to rescue her, and take her back to her friends, who I then scold for trying to kill their buddy. I couldn't stop laughing for about ten minutes, and she made my whole month. I gave her a big hug after the show and thanked her for having such an exceptional sense of humor, but I never got her name. So blind lady, wherever you are, I've made my blog compatible with screen readers, and if you're out there somewhere, come "see" me again sometime. You restored my faith in the human race.