Kathy didn't have a car and needed to buy a few things from Wal-mart. I was glad for the opportunity to help someone out so I called her and told her I was available. She had a friendly voice and gave me descriptive details of how to get to her apartment. When I arrived I saw an older woman standing near the curb in the front of the building. I pulled up near her, got out and asked if she was Kathy. She said yes, then we got in the car and left.

As we began to talk I knew we would enjoy our little shopping trip. When we arrived at the store she showed me the grocery list she had written of about ten items from hand lotion to frozen waffles to the traditional orange and black halloween candy. She then grabbed my arm and we began our walk throughout the store looking for everything on the list. As we went down each aisle we would talk about the details of our shopping. We did find it all except for one item, the black and orange candy. We looked up and down the Halloween aisle and then asked the clerk. They didn't have any. I told Kathy we could go to another store.

We easily found the candy at a Dollar General store. Earlier Kathy told me how she liked that particular candy for Halloween because she has a clear glass pumpkin she puts it all in. Then when Thanksgiving time comes she removes all the black candy pieces and she just has orange candy left to fill her pumpkin.

When we arrived at her apartment I brought in the groceries. As soon as I opened the door to her apartment I could smell a nice fragrance in the air. Her house was spotless and I saw her little glass pumpkin on the kitchen table. When I placed the groceries on her spotless kitchen counter I saw a paper towel with a few drops of dried blood on it. I told her where I had placed the groceries and what I had found. That's when I realized she was a diabetic and that was what had probably caused her blindness.

When we were shopping at times I would forget she was blind. Kathy was the first blind person that I have ever really got to be around for a while. When I was getting ready to leave, Kathy thanked me and as she did she looked at me directly and once again for an instance I had to stop and remember that she wasn't able to see me. It was later that I realized she was giving me an unselfish gift. She couldn't use her eyes to see my response but she still looked at me directly so that I would know she honestly meant the words she spoke.