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

Thu Mar 10 17:52:07 UTC 2011

Buddy's dog may be a chick magnet, but he may not be catching the chicks he wants. Nobody ever said what kind of chicks a chick magnet would attract. 

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From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Irving
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 12:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] Beyond the Obvious...How Does Your Guide Assist You?

Buddy, I've always heard that besides a dog being a man's best friend, it is 
a for sure chick magnet. What? this isn't so? Wonders never cease! Well, 
dear, I'm sure your dog is your best friend and takes real good care of you 
{that's about the time I pat you on the head and smile condescendingly}
 LOL

Lisa and Bernie----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buddy Brannan" <buddy at brannan.name>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Beyond the Obvious...How Does Your Guide Assist You?

> My experience mirrors Cindy's experience 100%. I've nver found that my dog 
> was any sort of "social icebreaker", "social aid", "social conversation 
> opener", or anything of the sort. There are lots of budding novelists out 
> there, though, and they wanted to know all the particulars of my dog. 
> Where did I get him, how old is she, (even though all mine have been 
> male), I had a dog just like that, except it was black, he's so beautiful 
> and takes such good care of you (even if he was late with the rent this 
> month). Maybe I'm socially inept, an assertion I won't argue because it 
> could well be true, but I've *never* been able to get people past my dog 
> and onto anything else. Nine people out of ten couldn't give a rip about 
> me, or anything. I could be the most interesting person in the world: 
> world traveled, accomplished, rich, successful, or whatever, but no one 
> would care much. I have a cute dog, and that's about all i was worth, 
> really. No cute dog, who cares? If someone saw me without my dog sometime, 
> "Hey, where's your dog?", and that would be about it. So, yeah, I'm 
> totally not on board the whole social icebreaker thing, I just don't see 
> it. It is, in my mind, one of the distinct disadvantages of having a guide 
> dog, actually.
> --
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
>
>
>
> On Mar 10, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Cindy Ray wrote:
>
>> 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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