[nagdu] re sighted guides great accidents :)

[Ioana Gandrabur]

speaking of arms pulled in different directions I was not with a guide dog
at that time but was running with 2 friends to try to catch a tram in
Germany. We get there out of breath and dash up the stairs. One pulls me to
the right and the other to the left and I smack full force right in the bar
at the middle of the door. Both felt terrible and I could not even properly
show how much my head was hurting to not aggravate their gilt further.
Always have to laugh about that one.

Best,

Ioana

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org]On
Behalf Of Wayne Merritt
Sent: February 20, 2010 5:08 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] re sighted guides


Ah, another person like myself, hmmm scary, grin. It is a weird
feeling though when your arms become spread and go in different
directions between the person you're holding onto and your dog. At
least when using this double sided method you're assured of not being
as likely to run into an obsticle because the person you're holding
onto forgot about you or wasn't paying attention. These are the times
that I'm glad that I was working my dog.

Wayne

On 2/19/10, AnnaLisa Anderson <annalisa at sector14.net> wrote:
> Hi Wayne.
>
> I do things very similarly in relation to sighted, or human, guides as you
> do.  The only problem is when the human guide wants to take a slightly
> different path than the dog guide does.  That's usually when I drop the
> harness because it's easier that way than trying to explain to the human
why
> you suddenly let go of them.  Once in a while though the dog's judgment is
> actually better.  Like the other day I was sort of hanging on to this
lady's
> bag that I was walking with so I could keep  track of where she was on a
> busy noisy street corner.  We were crossing both ways, and the lady sort
of
> cut off the corner, and Sunny wanted to do the usual and go up on the curb
> first.  I didn't really have time to say anything because the lady I was
> with was starting to cross the other way, so I sort of went with her and
> told Sunny to go along with it, this once. <smile>  Don't worry, that is
the
> exception to the rule, Sunny still knows how to properly do street
> crossings.
>
> AnnaLisa and Sundance
>
>
>
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