ArgonTorr

Oh I did. Sorry I cut out a bunch of intervening discussion. Also, you must not have understood or I wasn't clear but didn't turn her I swung around her I.e. I stepped 10 feet in the direction of the sidewalk. I moved, not her.

Oh yeah that's crazy I wouldn't put my hands on someone. I think if you point forward and say "if I'm standing on a clock and twelve o'clock is this way which way is it?" people should get it unless you have a real imbecile on your hands.

My guess was at the time that she had a lot of moments like when Ryan Seacrest tried to hi five that blind American idol auditioner.

Similar thing to what you're describing, I saw a totally blind girl at my undergraduate campus in the middle of the parking lot, so I stopped the car nearby and walked up and asked if she needed help getting somewhere (she looked like she took a wrong turn).

So I swung about 90 degrees around her and said the direction she wanted to go was "this way", trying to guide her towards my voice. Her response was "I can't see the direction you're pointing". I had this immediate reaction where I was like about to but totally stopped myself from saying, "Yeah, I know that. That's why I moved. THIS way for the way you want to go.". We eventually worked it out more cordially though than my visceral, filterless self could have allowed.

In hindsight I totally should have used the 'clock' system.