I saw the blind girl slowly making her way down the length of the Echelon Mall's food court, tapping along with her white cane, and kind of dancing from foot to foot. Every few tables, she had to ask directions, and she wasn't getting much help, because of the Pre-Christmas Sale rush of bad-tempered shoppers.
Brunette, with short brown hair, she was wearing a t-shirt and somehow not-quite-matching jeans, with a big belt, and also not-quite-matching boots.
I guessed, based on experience, that she was doing the 'I-just-gotta-take-a-piss-and-I-gotta-go-RIGHT-NOW' dance. Been there, done that.
Coming up behind her, I just quietly said, "Miss, can I help get you where you want to go?"
She started, then calmed, and said, "Can you get me to the ladies' room, please?"
"OK," I answered. "Take hold of my forearm, here on your left side. That leaves your cane free on the right. We can both hold your shopping bags."
She did, and we started. I signaled changes in direction with my forearm, her hand cool and with a light touch on top. But, when we approached the bathrooms, I could see that there was a long line of other women, waiting outside, and I knew my chance-met charge wouldn't make it, standing there, in a group of snarling-mad females.
"Uh, miss," I said, as I explained what I saw, "there's an alternative, but you'd have to trust me, and we've never met. I'm Tom Cattus—yes, I know what that means—but I could give you references, except that I don't have them with me and they're not in Braille. I'm trying to say that you could make your blindness work for you, and use the men's room, if I go along and run interference, so to speak."
Her grip tightened a little, and I heard her stifle a giggle, as she said, "Sure, let's go."
So, I guided her into the entrance to the men's restroom, braving catcalls from the other women of 'slut,' and 'whore.' As we passed the corner, I called out, "Hey, guys, I'm bringing a lady in here. She's blind. She can't see a thing. But, she really needs to go, real bad. Is there a stall open?"
We turned the corner, and about a dozen men were there, using the urinals or washing up. To a man, they all went dead quiet, turned to look, and then one man smiled, saying, "The handicapped stall's open. Guide her in there."
Acting on it, I directed my new charge through the door, and over to the seat, flipping the seat down (guys never do that). I said, as she started to undo her jeans, "The paper is to your right. I'll just leave your packages here, and step out ... ."
Interrupting me, she firmly said, "No. Stay here. Put the packages down and then help me with this belt."
Jaw dropping, I carefully placed her packages on the baby-changing table in the stall, and then gingerly bent to unfastened the complex clasp on her belt. As I freed it, her jeans flipped open and slid down to her knees, and I found myself looking at a nearly transparent Brazilian tanga (thong), just barely not covering her totally shaved pussy. She pulled down the tanga and sat, starting to piss with a vengeance, long and almost loud, as she sighed.
Then I heard her giggle again, as she said, "I hope you liked what you saw, 'cause I liked showing it to you."
I gulped, and finally found my voice, suddenly gone dry, saying, "Well, yeah, I did, that is, I ..."
She giggled again, and said, "I almost never get a chance to tease a guy, and I liked it."
Reaching to her right, she got out a wad of paper, and wiped herself, spreading her thighs wide to do so, cocking her ear over to get a better chance of my gasping, as I stared at her shaven pussy. She stood, and made quite a show about replacing her thong (what there was of it) and pulling up her jeans. She even made me help do up her belt clasp again.
Then, after exiting the stall, she had me direct her to the wash area, and washed her hands. Starting toward the entrance, with my help, she turned, and called out, "Hey, guys!" In one quick motion, she pulled up her t-shirt top, exposing her pretty bare boobs. She held that pose, slowly turning in a complete circle, in dead silence. Then she turned again, dropped her top, and we both left the men's restroom, giggling and laughing.
Not wanting this encounter to end, I asked, "Where to now, pretty girl?"
She answered, "Some place to eat, but not in the food court. Know any place like that?"
I said, "Yes, but you'd have to trust me, again, to take you there, and ride in a sidecar rig, attached to a motorbike."
"Let's go, Mr. Tomcat," she laughed aloud.
A little belatedly, I asked, "By the way, uh, what's your name?"
Giggling, she said, "You've seen my thong, my pussy and looked at my bare, braless tits, and NOW you're asking for my name. It's Danni-with-an-'i'."
I walked Danni-with-an-i out into the parking lot, using the same forearm-guide as before, and directed her how to get in to the sidecar. She belted herself in, collapsed her cane, and called out, "Let's roll!"
About 10 minutes later, we were at a small Thai restaurant. Another half hour later, we were eating fire-hot Thai food, complete from soup & appetizer to entrée, desert and Thai iced coffee.
Weeks before, I'd snagged some straws from a fast food place, and I showed her how to drink the Tom Kha Gai soup through it, getting the bits of vegetables and chicken only at the end. I told her to use her spoon instead of a fork and use a piece of a roll as a 'pusher'.
With her OK, I arranged the plates of food in front of her in a 'clock' patters (iced coffee at 10 o'clock, plate at 6 o'clock, and spring rolls at 2 o'clock).
During the lunch, I looked at her face, and, daring so, asked, "Glass eyes?"
She answered, "Yeah. Glass eyes. Good guess." She added, "You've been around blind folks before, haven't you?"
"Yeah," I answered, adding, "I gave a blind guy, named John, a ride to and from college for about a couple of years. His seeing-eye dog sat in the back of my car and licked my neck, before he hung his head out the window. By the way, do you know the one about motorcyclists; that they're the only ones who know why dogs hang their heads out the window of a fast-moving car."
She threw her head back and giggled.
"Anyway, John taught me a lot about being blind—he had double detached retinas when he was in his 30's—particularly about needing to be a messy eater. So, I thought I'd help out a bit, before you had to, maybe, embarrass yourself. Did I screw up?"
She giggled again, and said, "No, Tom Cat, you didn't screw up."
Speaking on a bit, she continued, "Tell me something about yourself," as she laid her fingertips on my open palm. Since I couldn't gesture when I spoke, I left it there. Somehow, with just facial expressions, nods, and a few spoken words of encouragement, she drew my recent living history out of me. About my former over-spending wife. About the text messages from her and my kids. About the fraudulent, forged divorce. About my nomadic travels on the motorbike-and-sidecar rig.
All I held back was the source of my income, substituting a vague job as a traveling 'consultant.'
She nodded, smiled, and said, "That's kind of a sad tale, and about 98 percent accurate. You told the truth, except about the 'consultant' bit. You lied about that."
She reached up, pretty accurately, and pushed my open mouth shut with her still-cool finger-tips. "Look here, Tom Cattus, I've been listening with a hyper-developed hearing, and holding on to your hand and palm. I can tell, immediately, by sound and touch and smell and taste, when a person—particularly a male person—goes off the 'truth wagon.'"
She went on, "I've got to be sooo careful, especially with guys, 'cause they lie a lot. Little blind girl gets scammed or raped and can't even describe her attackers, except by their voice. So I've learned to really listen—not just to words—and besides, I had my hand on yours, so I could feel the little tremors that mean 'lie'."
"Oh, yeah," she added, "my touch tells me you're a good guy, 98% honest, probably hot for my little blind butt ... particularly now that I've teased you with my tits, thong and pussy ... but not at all interested in rape or scamming. Probably sexy as hell. Just my type."
"So, you're not a 'consultant,' but you can travel around the country, and you can stay in good motels, hotels and residence inns. Deduction tells me that you have an independent source of money, and you make more than you can spend. Since you're a 'good guy,' and you know there are a lot of scams, men, and particularly women, that would dearly love to take most or all of it away, I don't blame you for going 'off' the truth' a little."
She added, "Close your mouth again, dear man, the bugs will get in. Now stick to the absolute truth. Did you like to see me topless in the guy's bathroom? Did you like what you saw in the stall?"
I stuttered out, "uh, well, I ... yes, I did, damn it."
She said, "OK. Now see here, Tom Cat, I'd really like to sway
forward and let my top fall open and let you take a long look down my top and my two pretty titties, swinging and panting for your touch. But, they're all enclosed in this ratty t-shirt top, and I just can't do the 'girls-gone-wild' shirt-pull-up, titty show-off here, even though I'm braless. I can't drop my jeans and let you play with my pussy, either, though I'd like it, too."