[nagdu] things that go bump in the night

[Tami Kinney]

Good for your clever guide dog! Dd an I still go around about my 
insistence -- and Mitzi's -- about sticking rigidly to proper procedure 
in parking lots as we do at street crossings. He can see if it's safe 
for us or not, sure, but... I want to keep our sense and skills honed 
for when we are not with him. My big thing is straight lines using the 
shortest distance between two points when crossing a traffic area. He 
will angle using a visual target for a shorter distance to where we are 
actually going. He is almost certainly right, and there would be no 
danger in following him. However, I want to stay in the habit of 
listening for myself and following my guide dog as she uses her senses 
to find the best route for us through potential danger zones.

Then again, she's had opportunity to show me that she can be pretty 
clever in dragging a confused, frightened and irritable blind woman 
around a crazy fool driver trying to back over us in a parking lot. If I 
had my cane, I would just haul off and beat on their car with it to get 
their attention... I know that because I have had that opportunity, too. 
/lol/ Everybody was shocked when I told my tale, since apparently I was 
supposed to have worried if I might have dinged up the car and thus made 
the driver mad.  Um... When the car is about to back over you and you 
don't have space to dodge around quickly why would you worry the other 
guy might get mad at you?

So you just never know what will happen in parking lots, that's what I'm 
saying. /grin/

Tami

On 12/22/2011 11:37 AM, harold leigland wrote:
> hi cindy, I have no idea why people do such things but I think the person might have been talking on a cell phone or texting perhaps the car or truck finally stopped after we hurried around it. barely got around it too! Sam shook himself after we made it. best regards hal
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cindy Ray<cindyray at gmail.com>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users"<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Thursday, Dec 22, 2011 10:28:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] things that go bump in the night
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>>
>>
>> Why would someone want to back over you in the parking lot. That is criminal and why would someone take that chance. Not saying I have doubt that they did it.
>> Cindy
>>
>> On Dec 22, 2011, at 12:08 PM, harold leigland wrote:
>>
>>> using a cane or dog has been an adventure for me; when our son was 4 we were both hit and knocked down by a drunk soldier from the base in his suv not seriously injured and saved the 2 12 packs of coke I had with us. The other day someone kept trying to back over me and Sam my guide dog in our apartment parking lot aint life grand? merry Christmass and better new year hal
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