[nagdu] Here's your dog!

[Sherri]

I've had the same issue with magazines. Wow, a pun, and I didn't even 
realize it. *lol.

Sherri
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ann Edie" <annedie at nycap.rr.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Here's your dog!


> No, to your question about the guide harness.  But if you really want to 
> have fun some time, try leaving a Braille magazine that you have finished 
> reading on an airplane, in a hotel lobby, or in any other public place 
> where someone can track you down.
>
> I've had discarded magazines follow me from the plane to the baggage claim 
> area, and I've had them appear on my breakfast table in the hotel 
> restaurant days after being abandoned in the hotel lobby.  I've even had 
> them presented to me on a revisit to a doctor's office, months after I've 
> left them behind after reading them.
>
> It always amazes me that this happens, because all of these places are 
> characterized by stacks of print magazines, read, shared, and discarded by 
> the customers, passengers, patients who spend time mostly waiting in those 
> areas.  Obviously, sighted people see a Braille document of any kind as an 
> object of such rarity and value that they can't imagine it ever being 
> deliberately abandoned.  And just as obviously, they find it easy to 
> believe that the blind person is so scatter-brained or careless that 
> he/she requires others to gather and return his/her prized possessions to 
> him/her.
>
> By the way, they also expect gratitude when the marvelous Braille magazine 
> is placed back in your hands.  They are completely nonplused when I say to 
> them, "Oh, I had discarded that magazine, because I was finished reading 
> it. You're welcome to take it if you wish."
>
> I don't know if anyone else has ever had such experiences.  But it has 
> become something of a game I play with airline and hotel staff--see if you 
> can lose the Braille magazine--Reminds me of the song, "The Cat Came 
> Back."
>
> Best,
> Ann
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Haben Girma" <habnkid at aol.com>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:19 AM
> Subject: [nagdu] Here's your dog!
>
>
>>
>> Sometimes when I'm at the counter at a store or cafe, I"ll deliberately 
>> drop my cane by my feet so I can fish into my backpack to get my wallet. 
>> And sometimes, like today, when I've finished my purchase and am putting 
>> everything away in my backpack, a staff member will come around to pick 
>> up my cane and hand it to me. Now, I knew exactly where my cane was. In 
>> fact, I could feel it by my foot! I was going to pick it up right after I 
>> put my wallet in my backpack. The staff member was either very eager to 
>> help, or worried that I wouldn't be able to find my cane.
>>
>> Now I"m wondering, do any of you have similar experiences with dogs? Do 
>> people in the public say, "here's his harness!" when you already know 
>> exactly where your guide dog is located?
>>
>> Haben
>>
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