[nagdu] Beyond the Obvious...How Does Your Guide Assist You?

[Lisa Irving]

One of the reasons I decided to attend a women's Bible study was to meet 
other women with whom I share common interests. I think some of these woman 
got put off when I tried to steer our conversation toward her or about me. 
As in any setting, some woman got it and there were those cluckers and 
koo-koo'ers who are probably still clueless.

My dog seems to be a drunk magnet. While waiting for busses the drunks some 
times come in droves-- well maybe, one or two at a time. Yes, on the bus, 
that's where the over opinionated busy bodies seem magnetized to my dog. 
Such is life.

Lisa and Bernie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Beyond the Obvious...How Does Your Guide Assist You?


>I don't know if it is me or what, but I find this idea that the dog helps 
>me in a social way to be pretty much 0. I find that people don't think of 
>me beyond my dog. They want to know his name, but they don't even care what 
>mine is, and they don't want to know what I'm doing. They want to pet, coo, 
>cluck, chirp, and talk about him, but they don't care about me. I always 
>found this to be a problem, and I often have to steer them away from that 
>topic if I want to be talking about something else that is more important 
>at the time. Once when I was married to Dr. Chuck he went with me to my 
>daughter's teacher conference and we wondered if we would get to it for the 
>questions the teacher was asking about the dog he had. Now, I agree that we 
>need to educate, but there's a time. But one of my dogs saved me once from 
>falling down an unguarded hole. We walked up to it and she stopped. It 
>looked like a curb at the first thought, but when I started to step down 
>it, tentatively, of course because a curb  had not been there before, there 
>was nothing but space.
>
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