"blind" people and lights in their homes

[Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup]

@Angua

IIRC, the term ‘legally blind’ refers to a level of visual impairment at which the state classes you as ‘blind’. You may have some visual perception, such as motion, or light, but for legal purposes, eg, driving a car, disability benefits, you are classed as blind.

But even the deaf can hear the “whooshing” sound.

[Lamia]

@Broomstick

Because no one could find a flashlight, and the fusebox was in the back of a closet, we wound up sending “Eric” in to fix the problem under the theory he was the guy least like to hurt himself finding his way through the pitch dark back there.

I had a blind friend in high school who got to lord it over the rest of us one day when there was a power outage. In most of the classrooms this wasn’t a big deal, since there were large windows to let in sunlight, but we had one class in the basement. Down a long, steep flight of stairs in what had suddenly become a pitch-black stairwell.

The rest of us were inching our way up and down them with extreme care, but my friend was taking them two at a time the way she always did. And when something needed to be fetched from upstairs during class, we sent her to do it!

[Peter_Morris]

@Steve MB

I don’t recall that from any of Asimov’s mysteries – are you thinking of somebody else?

I’m pretty sure it’s from one of the Lucky Starr series, I don’t recall which one.