[nagdu] things that go bump in the night

Sat Dec 24 05:05:25 UTC 2011

To bad I can't put international orange spray paint into a pepper spray 
canister and use it to spray those pesky vehicles that almost run me over.

Conversation with the police would go something like this.

Cops: What did the car look like?

Me: it's that car with all that permanent orange stuff all over it.

For some reason if I did this, in this world, I would be charged with 
vandalism or something. But it's ok to dream.

Once I got my tows ran over by a quiet car who tried to cut me off by 
turning into an intersection I was crossing. Lucky for me, I was wearing 
safety tow construction boots.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tami Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] things that go bump in the night

> 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
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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