[nagdu] Empty chairs at empty tables...Hi:

[Kristen]

I like Raven's suggestions about asking if anyone is sitting 
there first or checking with your feet and will have to try those 
next time.

This is sort of related, but one time, Corvette and I was at Hu 
Hot with my family. We were coming back to our table with our 
plates, and he went underneath the people's table behind us, not 
ours. He's usually good about taking me back to the same seat, 
but not that time. It was embarrassing because he was stubborn 
about getting up and was determined to stay under their table and 
eat with some random strangers. We had to physically pull him 
out. They didn't say much, either, and weren't the humorous type.
--
Kristen


----- Original Message -----
From: Raven Tolliver via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org
To: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>, "NAGDU Mailing List,the 
National Association of Guide Dog Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 14:18:14 -0400
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Empty chairs at empty tables...Hi:

Whoa! Okay. When checking if a seat is occupied, I have found 
that
checking with my feet instead of my hands is more foolproof. If I 
feel
forward with my feet, it's much less invasive.
It bothers me to the nth degree when a person in a seat you 
approach
doesn't speak up, or when they do, they don't suggest an 
alternative
seat. Grrrrrr!

On 7/8/14, Tracy Carcione via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
 What I hate most is when I tell the dog to find a seat on the 
subway and he

 finds some guy with his legs wide apart and I'm feeling between 
them and
 feeling a seat and almost sit on the guy.  Very embarrassing.
 Tracy

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Gary Steeves via nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
 To: "Craig Heaps" <craig.heaps at comcast.net>; "NAGDU Mailing 
List,the
 National Association of Guide Dog Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
 Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 1:14 PM
 Subject: Re: [nagdu] Empty chairs at empty tables...Hi:


 Hi:  Last year I started working on training Bogart to find 
seats on the
 sky train, our rapid  transit system in Vancouver.  His 
percentage of
 finding empy seats has increased but often just me telling him 
to find a
 seat will get people up and out of the seats closest to the 
door.  It is
 great though when I go to conferences.  We can go for a coffee 
break and
 when i come back he will take me to my seat i was at in the huge
 conference room.

 But as you all konw bogart and me do have some embarrassing 
moments when I

 go to reach to feel the seat and find someones leg t there. :)

 Gary



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