[nagdu] question

[Allison Nastoff]

Usually, I don't carry a cane when doing sighted guide.  My 
parents are very experienced in sighted guide, so mishaps are 
extreme rare.  When I have done sighted guide with friends, they 
walk so slowly and caughtiously with me that again, mishaps are 
extremely rare.  Also in school, I was always kind of clumsy, and 
would forget to swing my cane wide enough.  Therefore, I have 
given myself more black eyes using a cane than with sighted guide 
(smile).  To me, carrying a cane when I do not plan to use it 
does not seem necessary.  It's just another thing to hold, and 
another thing for the public to trip over.  I respect anyone who 
prefers to carry a cane.  This is just my personal preference.
Allison and Gilbert

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (IT)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at ngc.com
>To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog 
Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:06:50 -0500
>Subject: Re: [nagdu] question

>Allison, can you send me a copy of your article? This brings up 
another
>question I have, when you (the collective you, not just Allison) 
go
>sighted guide, do you use your cane?
>I do because it lets me pick up on things the guide may not tell 
me
>about.  The cane also identifies me as someone who is blind.
>Curious to know what others do.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
On
>Behalf Of Allison Nastoff
>Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:29 PM
>To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog 
Users
>Subject: Re: [nagdu] question

>Hi Lisa,
>I must confess that I don't carry a cane in my backpack.  I do 
have a
>cane at my house, but I have had so much more practice walking 
routes
>with Gilbert on my college campus than I had with a cane that 
without
>Gilbert, I'm lost.  You can read about my disastrous attempt at 
cane
>travel on campus in the next issue of Harness Up.
>I was a confident cane traveler around my high school, but 
nowadays, if
>something happened to Gilbert, or if I were going to an event 
that was
>inappropriate for him, I would much prefer sighted guide.
>Allison and Gilbert

>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Lisa" <lison1273 at live.com
>>To: "seeing eye-l" <seeingeye-l at list.web.net Date sent: Tue, 17 
Feb
>>2009 16:32:57 -0500
>>Subject: [nagdu] question

>>Hello everyone, I had a question for all of you.  Do you carry a
>folding or telescoping cane with you at all times and if so why 
or why
>not?
>>Lisa

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