[nagdu] calling the program was researching programs

[Julie J]

Tami,

I've never had anyone call me in...or at least I have never heard about it. 
LOL

I'm not sure who'd they call though?

Julie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tamara Smith-Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
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Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] calling the program was researching programs


> Julie,
>
> I've been told a time or two by someone that they turned me in because
> they're so worried about me and just the OCB to do something.  The way in
> which they tell me leads me to believe they expect me to so very grateful
> and to attend closely to their lecture about going to the OCB and every
> other social agency they've heard of or just dreamed up on the spot 
> because
> I need to learn to ask for help.  If I can't learn that, they add 
> severely,
> they are done with me and will not help me out again if that's how I'm 
> going
> to be.
>
> The first time, I believed I was miscommunicating, so the second time I
> paused to consider my responses carefully and just never got the 
> opportunity
> to make any of them.  The concerned citizen's half of the conversation 
> went
> exactly the same way that of the previous concerned citizen's had.  So now 
> I
> just listen patiently until they get out of my way and I can move on, 
> unless
> I get bored enough to just turn around and go around the block the other
> way.
>
> I guess people see me as approachable enough to keep me in the loop about
> what they're doing to protect me from my dangerously irresponsible
> lifestyle.  Frankly, though, it gives me the willies.
>
> Now that I have a big strong man to take care of me, of course, they just
> tell him about it.  Although when moved to this end of the neighborhood, I
> did learn that the new neighbors were keeping a close watch on me and
> letting the managers know what I was up to.  The whole lot of them fretted 
> a
> great deal about the amount time said big, strong man would spend at work
> while leaving me all alone with "those dogs."
>
> I would imagine it's the same thing with people who call the nearest guide
> dog school about rogue handlers out crossing streets and not letting 
> people
> pet their poor overworked guide dogs.
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Julie J
> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 6:19 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] calling the program was researching programs
>
> Jeanine,
>
> It's very good to hear that you don't accept anonymous complaints at GDF.
> If someone can't give their name it would make me wonder about the 
> validity
> of their statement.  It's too easy to make up stories if you can hide 
> behind
>
> anonymity.
>
> Got any ideas why the public doesn't address the blind person directly 
> about
>
> the issue?  Or at least why they don't try that approach first?
>
> Is tattling a societal thing or just a blind people thing?  When I used to
> work in rehab the O&M instructor would occasionally get phone calls about
> some blind person or another who was out alone and crossing dangerous
> intersections or something similarly inappropriate for a blind person to 
> do.
>
> *smile*
>
> I'm trying to think of a parallel situation that doesn't involve blind
> people where sighted people turn each other in for perceived 
> indescressions.
>
> I can't think of any sort of situation.   of a noncriminal nature. 
> Perhaps
> it is a blindness/disability thing exclusively.
>
> Sometimes I think too much! LOL
> Julie
>
>
>
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