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

[Cindy Ray]

You probably don't want to know the chick magnets. LOL. Sides, Buddy is suffering from marrital bliss.


On Mar 10, 2011, at 11:52 AM, PICKRELL, REBECCA M (TASC) wrote:

> 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. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> 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" 
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> 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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