Rain + dark + street lights = guess which lane you're in

I just went to Horton's to get a brown cup. It is raining outside again. Why I felt the need to say outside baffled me too, but figured I'd leave it there to show that I do have some faults. It makes as much sense as ordering at the drive through and stating the fact that "it's to go."

Anyway, I was headed somewhere with this. Ahh. The rain. Seeing that it's after midnight, it's pretty dark out there. I was driving home and realized that when it's dark and raining, I cannot see the lines on the road for the glare of the street lights. My eyesight keeps getting worse.

I have to use a jewellers eye to read blueprints that customers send me. I often swear I'm seeing people running across an eight lane highway. Every phone book I look at is double printed. So are newspapers.

Tom knows I am night blind. He can see perfectly when the lights go out. He laughs at me for walking around with my hands out in front of me, feeling for a wall or something to guide me to wherever it is I am heading. One night he was up in bed and I followed a short while later. I hadn't turned on the light - decided to climb the stairs in the dark therefore, I was counting. He asked me what I was doing. I told him I was counting the stairs so I didn't take an extra step. I explained that it's actually quite funny if going up, but I nearly broke my ankle once on the way down. He thought I was insane. Since that night, I have learned NEVER to go ahead of him on the stairs when it's dark out. I flick the light on and start going up. He will wait until I'm halfway up and will shut the lights off, knowing I'm not counting because the light was on. Bastard! Think he just likes to see me take the extra step at the top and laugh at me when I piddle.

Yes - my bladder is failing me as well.

Well, my coffee is just about finished and I'm feeling tired, so I will end this and head off to bed. There was going to be a point to this message but I am afraid to admit that I don't know what it was. My memory is failing me as well. I am falling apart. I need to get some sleep. Talk to you in the morning!