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

[Lisa Irving]

I didn't anticipate being taken anything that resembles seriously.  {LOL}
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "PICKRELL, REBECCA M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] Beyond the Obvious...How Does Your Guide Assist You?


> 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>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 8:12 AM
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>
>> 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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