The Collection- Giacamo Part 2

You have to be tough when you don’t fit the mold. Look at me, I’m a bulldog cross, not exactly the kind of dog you think of when you think seeing eye dog. Everyone judges me, people and dogs alike. They write me off by the way I look. But I tell you I can do more than most dogs dream about! 

Take Mr. Thompson’a seeing eye dog. Patience, that stuck up bitch! She won’t acknowledge my presence. She thinks she is some big shot walking that old man to the newspaper stand and back! Well has she ever been on stage in front of thousands? Flew across the country? I bet not!

Part 2 

When Giacamo and I moved into our first place last year in a new neighborhood and it was something of an adventure. Not so easy for my parents. My mom found this braille machine that made labels. She went though the entire apartment putting labels on everything. Giacamo and I got lost a couple of times. That was how we met Mr. Thompson, this kind older gentlemen who gave me some tips on living on your own. He was born blind and had never known anything else. 

Those first few months were the toughest. I was scared as hell that I would leave a shirt on the stove and burn the place down or walk off the balcony or fall down the stairs. But determined to not let this limit my life. 

I would have coffee with Mr. Thompson and his golden retriever Patience. She even showed Giacamo and myself how she could dial 911. Between you and me though, I get this feeling he doesn’t like her. The first time Mr. Thompson and Patience came over to our new place for coffee, he asked me “ Your mother is here a lot isn’t she?”

I asked him how he came to that conclusion after simply sitting down on my sofa. and he replied, “ Well son, no self respecting blind man would have a braille label on a coffee table saying coffee table.” I was mortified. 

Later that evening I took off all the labels my mother had place on seemingly every surface of my apartment and Giacamo seemed to huff and grunt in approval. That was when I finally felt we would be okay.