Disclaimer: See chapter1.
Pretty soon it was Monday and the start of my guide dog's last full working week. I had to make arrangements to get my guide dog's bed cleaned and packed for the trip on the bus so someone had to bring it over to the mainland and leave it here. Here in the hotel room my guide was sleeping on an old mat and blankets which would be going home the day I leave here. Deciding that I should do something to cheer myself up I had left the hotel to go buy myself a music player of some sort to listen to on the bus while I'm on it.
I didn't talk to anyone and having some music to block out the people on the bus and to calm myself down would be a great thing to have.
Yes, I had the DVD player Gordon had gotten me but it only lasted for three hours. It didn't have the batteries Brains had come up with which lasted way longer than what this DVD player had. So when the DVD player goes off, I'll have the Mp4 player to play with. I wasn't sure if I would be able to take my laptop with me and I knew that I won't be able to take too much stuff with me anyway. So small and light was the only option.
When I got to the shop where I get my coffee from I had asked the one lady there where the shop owner was and when I was told that she had been at a mall which was too darn far for me to go and I got an idea. I asked the lady to phone her and ask her to buy me an MP4 player and that I'd pay her the money when she got back to the shop. I knew that my father was going to kill me if he found out that I'd asked someone else to buy something for me.
We could just call for a car or taxi and we could get where we want and what we want. Well, I wasn't in the mood to go to a mall and to have to explain myself where ever I go or to get people looking and talking about me when they recognized me. I wasn't in the mood for the newshounds either.
When the lady had returned later that day I got the shock of my life. Opening the box I found that something was missing. The lady was watching me with her husband at her side. When I had a frown on my face the husband had come over and taken the box from me. Looking at it he had then declared that there should be a charger, cable, cd and the instruction booklet.
Opening the box himself he had turned it over and when only the MP4 and earphones came sliding out I had felt like banging my head against the counter which was just in front of me. I knew that the lady won't be going to the mall anytime soon because it was in another town which was an hour's drive away. The lady had turned and walked off with her husband just dumping the box in front of me and following his wife.
I knew that I was going to be in for it now. That is when my father would get word of it. Why hadn't the lady checked the box to make sure that everything was there? I really didn't know. I hated the fact that I was blind and that some people didn't care how they treated the disabled or in my case what they brought me when asked to buy something. Packing up what was there of the MP4, I had left the shop and gone back to the hotel. What else could I do now? I knew that I had a cable which might be able to fit on the player and I also had a charger which I hoped would work on it and not blow the hotel sky high.
I had almost made it to the hotel when without warning a dog had run up to us and before I could do anything it tried to bite my dog. Where I didn't know but my dog didn't make a sound. I guessed that the dog had missed or had ended up biting the harness. The owner of that dog had called it back and as I kept on walking I could hear her cursing. I didn't really know if it was directed at my guide and me or her own dog. Then another dog showed up, barking away as it ran closer to us. Another lady had seen what was about to happen and had run up to us and was chasing the dog away.
When the lady came back I had thanked her and walked back to the safety of the hotel. It felt like someone or something had it in for me that day. When I got into my room I had gone to my laptop bag to find the cable and charger to see if I could at least get the player working. When the little screen flashed at me letting me know that it was getting power I gave a sigh of relief. I only had one small problem. With no instruction booklet to tell me how it worked, I had no idea what it could do or what kind of music it could play. I would have had to find someone to read the booklet but I already knew that the chatty ladies downstairs would be able to do the job of reading it for me. My day couldn't get any worse right?