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

Lisa Irving lirving1234 at cox.net
Fri Mar 11 04:54:48 UTC 2011


I rest my case. The chick magnet thing worked on your behalf-- God too. 
Blessings and wishes for another 50 years of marital bliss!

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 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Beyond the Obvious...How Does Your Guide Assist You?


> 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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