[nagdu] Issues

[Cindy Ray]

She called "Vampire" for short?

On Feb 2, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Doug Parisian wrote:

> Hey Windy Cindy, I'd have done the same thing; how bloody presumptuous of that woman though she does deserve some credit for self insite.  Chances are that, had you "mealy-mouthed"  around the issue, you would most likely not have gotten her attention.
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> Narrow isles, blood bags--yummie yummie says Miss Payton, always ready for a little warm tasty protein shake.
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> Doug: Sometimes, ya just have to be a big hammer!
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray at gmail.com>
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>> Well, I think I'll bring up a new issue just for grins. Let's imagine you are going to give blood one day. Let's imagine that you are planning to give blood at this blood drive. OK, I don't have to imagine this because I am. I haven't been able to give for a couple of times because of an infected tooth, but that's TMI. So I am truly looking forward to it. My phone rang, and the lady on the other end of the line identified herself, and she was from the blood center. She said, "I understand you are planning to gie blood at the Westminster Blood Drive. Now, we understand you have a service dog. [I think that was her terminology.] We are going to be using a blood mobile and the aisles are narrow in there. We've been talking about it and wondering if you could leave the dog at the refreshment end so he won't get stepped on." Who was talking about it. Why wouldn't they assume that I had been using a dog long enough to know how to handle situations like that? Truth be told, I had had him in there when I accompanied Bob in the next to last time we were going to give. I don't doubt that the dog is btter off left in a more comfortable place, but I don't need someone explaining to me why that might be and asking me if I would mind to not bring him in there because of the narrow aisles. I have a feeling I would have thought of it on my own, and I did actually express my displeasure. I told her the fact that she assumed I wouldn't figure out the best place for my dog was rather annoying. She said she was sorry, she had just wanted to make it better and guessed she had not. Before anybody tells me I might have been more tactful, I would say that they would be right, but I think after you've used a dog six months or less, and especially after twenty-two years, you are likely to know how to handle the dog in a tight situation.
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>> Cindy Lou
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