[nagdu] Stepmother's Wisecracks

[NCBootman]

Have you tried playing the game? Maybe she knows it bothers you or maybe she 
is bothered and doesn't know how to verbalize her own feelings. Keep it 
light and positive and be the most comfortable person in the world. Be 
sincere and bend down and ask Izzy what she just said. Of course, you get to 
tell stepmother what Izzy said! Maybe something like Why do people wear 
clothes? Then follow up with her harness makes her feel normal with all the 
clothed people. Otherwise, she'd feel all naked and that would be just 
wrong! Act as if nothing happened out of the ordinary. I bet her jaw will 
hit the floor. In your restaurant, Izzy might be thinking that it sure is 
nice to be a guide dog because look at this whole room full of people 
rubbing their tummy in misery and loking like they've just eaten half a cow. 
Sure will be nice to just go home and have her proper sized portion of 
ladylike food. I am pretty sure it won't take many such statements till this 
woman will be afraid to talk to Izzy cause dogs don't have the filters of 
appropriateness we humans use and she might politely be embarrassed. Do this 
calmly in the normal flow of things so it is very natural. Have some fun. 
People often think they have to act a certain way at church and in groups. 
We can educate in anice way that they don't realize what we just said till 
later. This woman won't feel very comfortable when she realizes she just ate 
a half a fried chicken or a double decker hot fudge cake. If you are 
confronted, you can say Izzy is talking to me too. Look at what I ate. She 
teaches me things all the time. Practice, practice, practice so this will be 
perfectly natural. Can I come to church with you and watch? I'll even buy 
your lunch lol.

Have a friend somewhere watching your back cause you need to know her 
response and if anybody runs from the dining room or has a coughing fit in 
the elevator or starts bawling, it's cause they are dying to laugh and 
trying not to.

Greg
-----Original Message----- 
From: Suzy Wilson
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 6:33 PM
To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nagdu] Stepmother's Wisecracks

Hi guys, I have an ongoing problem that I would like your input on.
Every Sunday Izzy goes with me to church and my dad and stepmom Linda pick 
us up. After church we go out to dinner with friends and upon arrival at the 
restaurant Linda always says; "Poor Izzy has to smell all this good food, it 
must be torture for her!"
Another thing she does is to verbalize what she thinks Izzy must be 
thinking, such as when we were in the elevator going to Sunday School she 
said to a friend,"Izzy says if you take this ugly harness off me I'll let 
you pet me!" Linda thinks she is being funny but all it does is aggravate 
the heck out of me. She never takes me or the importance of my guide dog 
seriously. Thanks for any thoughts and input you can share.
cordially Yours; Suzy and Isabella

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