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

[Lisa Irving]

See, the chick magnet thing was quite successful for Buddy!

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 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Beyond the Obvious...How Does Your Guide Assist You?


> 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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