sosie,
i'm so sorry to hear (no pun intended) about the experiences of the deafblind woman you described. thank goodness nothing like that has ever happened to me before.
however, there used to be a totally deafblind man who lived in my neighborhood years ago who was once dropped off by a rude cab driver who refused to communicate with him. the deafblind man gave him a printed copy of his destination, rode in the cab to where he thought he should be, but was dropped off at a completely different location on the other side (a bad side) of town. a pedestrian found him wandering the streets alone for several hours with his cane and called the police who sent him to the hospital to be checked out and then brought him home. i'd love it if some of these cab drivers could spend a day in the life of a deafblind person (or any disabled person for that matter). perhaps they would have a little more compassion.
