[optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
- From: don bishop <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:18:44 -0800
Yes,
I've been reading fortune cookies for years. It's also interesting to
turn them over and read what's on the back.
Don
On 12/19/2009 9:46 AM, Dan and Bonnie Tonge wrote:
> That is a neat story, and I have also had times when I didn't think there was
> anything I could read on a box or something and then picked it up again later
> and found that there was, even on just an electrical adaptor. Has anyone
> ever read their fortune from a fortune cookie with the Optacon? I didn't
> think it would work, but hey, it did. I thought that was pretty neat reading
> my fortune with the Optacon. I thought the writing would be too small, but
> there it was.
>
> Dan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linda Gehres"<ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Optacon List"<optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 8:31 AM
> Subject: [optacon-l] Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
>
>
> Yesterday I received a package which didn't contain any labels that could be
> felt. I scanned the
> package on both sides perhaps too quickly with my Optacon, finding primarily
> information about sending
> packages via priority mail for a flat shipping rate but nothing as to the
> package's sender or
> recipient. Too curious to leave it at that, I opened the box, thinking that
> if there were a note inside,
> it would be typed if the package was for me. Alas, the note appeared
> handwritten, but I was too tired
> and frustrated to try to discern whether the note was printed or in cursive
> writing. A friend happened
> to call last night, and I was filling him in on this whole story, griping
> that the post office had
> probably, as usual, misdelivered a Christmas package to my address.
> I decided this morning when I got up to re-examine the box, and finally, I
> found a zip code which I
> recognized as being that of my brother and his family near Washington, D.C.
> And the note turned out
> to be in print and in all caps! So, the wonderful and beloved Optacon does it
> again! All it takes
> is a lot of patience sometimes!
>
> Linda Gehres
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