Wilt

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Originally Posted by WiltsAKGirl17

Here?s something that?s been on my mind off and on all day, so I figured I?d throw this out there and see what you guys think.

Today I took the test to get my drivers? license learners? permit. When I was skimming the form you have to fill out to get the temps (assuming you pass the test <crosses fingers that I did>), I saw something that said (to this effect) that people with a visual impairment that required corrective measurements beyond glasses and/or contact lenses could not be issued a license. I think it even specifically mentioned being blind in one eye.

Instantly I thought of Wilt and that got me wondering: because of his wonky eye, would he be ineligible for a drivers? license? I?ve always assumed that his left eye was a glass one, since the pupil rattle around in the eye itself (although in a normal eye, the pupil is an opening in the eye) and that when Wilt blinks, it?s with only his right eye. This being said, I think the DMV would have to deny Wilt a license, despite the fact that he?s certainly old enough to get one. (That, and driving a car with only one arm might be a bit of a challenge?) However, I could be wrong-- this technicality (for want of a better word) may only apply to the State of Madne-- I mean, Alaska.

Laws for drivers' licenses vary from state to state. In South Carolina, as long as you can either read the road signs in that little view-finder thingie, or have something signed by an eye doctor, a one-eyed person can get a license, and indeed, I've known a few folks who were blind in one eye and drove just fine. One of the teachers at the high school is a Vietnam vet who lost an eye AND his left arm, so he's more like Wilt indeed, yet he drives. He has a special car in which the turn signal arm has been moved to the right side of the steering column, so he can operate it. I don't know what the requirements are in Washington state, though, but yeah, you are correct in that Wilt is blind in his left eye, whether or not it's an artificial eye. In "Blooooooo!", while he, Coco, and Ed were hiding from the "Cannonball Ghost" in the dark closet, you can see BOTH of Coco's and Eduardo's eyes in the dark, but only one of Wilt's, so even if it is still his real eye, the pupil does not function to allow in any light at all.

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