[nagdu] You never know

[Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)]

The flip side though is that you can be really having a bad day and not
look so good. Or, you and dog can be doing what you're supposed to do
and someone seeing it doesn't understand and doesn't want to learn. 
I always found that stressful, both the bad days we've all experienced
when it seems like our dog gave its brain to science before it was done
with it, or the people that think they know what the dog should be doing
and are just plain wrong. You can't educate when all you've got to deal
with is stupidity. Likewise, you can't have direct control every single
minute and not having that control can ge real stressful when you have
the "God is watching" mindset going. 
That being said, I'm glad Tracy you had such a good day. Days like that
are wonderful. 


-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Tamara Smith-Kinney
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 4:50 PM
To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
Subject: Re: [nagdu] You never know

Well, I tend to think that the best PR we do, and the best public
relations
for our dogs is to go out and use them well in our daily lives.

The bigger work of NAGDU collectively and of the NFB is important, too.
But
it's us everyday guide dog users that people see and remember.  /smile/

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf
Of Tracy Carcione
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 9:27 AM
To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nagdu] You never know

I am listening to Rosalind Carter talk about her efforts to improve
mental
health services.  She was inspired to try to do something because some
unknown woman handed her a brochure somewhere.  The woman probably has
no
idea that she'd made a difference.  It made me think that we in the NFB
and NAGDU might never know if some little thing we've done made a
difference.
Like, people on the crosstown bus this morning were admiring how quiet
Ben
was lying under the seat, and how they'd never know he was there if they
hadn't seen him go under.  Happens all the time.  But maybe one of those
people will speak up, if they see someone being denied access,
remembering
how well-behaved that guide dog they saw was. You never know.
Anyway, just a thought.
Tracy



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