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

Cindy Ray cindyray at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 01:57:08 UTC 2011


Course she wouldn't say so. She loves your dog. hahahahaha. SORRY, Just had to say it. Happy anniversary and have a wonderful cruise. I know you will enjoy getting away from the springtime in Pennsylvania. *smile*

On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Buddy Brannan wrote:

> Cindy's right. In the main, you seriously don't want to know. Mind you, there are exceptions, but in my experience, rare ones. Yes, suffering from marrital bliss. Ten years, and she ain't kicked me to the curb yet, though lord knows, I'm sure she's been sorely tempted. She'd never say so though, she's far too kind. We're going on a cruise next week for our tenth anniversary. Very exciting.
> --
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 10, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Cindy Ray wrote:
> 
>> 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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