Blinded By All The Selfie Sticks

(I’m blind, and I walk with a long white cane. I am outside the entrance to a theme park waiting for my friend. I hear her call my name and start walking towards her and am stopped by a cast member.)

Cast Member: “You can’t bring that in with you. That thing is for your camera.”

(I am completely lost by her statement, I have nothing with me, and I don’t have a camera.)

Me: “I’m sorry, but what do you mean?”

(My friend walks over to join us as the cast member touches my cane.)

Cast Member: “This. It can’t come in the park; we don’t allow selfie-sticks.”

Friend: “My friend is blind, and that is a cane.”

(Apparently the look on the cast member’s face was pretty funny when she figured out her mistake.)