[nagdu] Stepmother's Wisecracks

[Larry D. Keeler]

Maybe she should start answering for her dog!  I would cdertainly do it but 
then again, I have little tolerance for those who should know better!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "NCBootman" <ncbootman at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Stepmother's Wisecracks


> 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
>
> Sent from my iPad
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