[nagdu] Noise at the corner

Tue Jun 24 14:36:57 UTC 2014

Wait you said you wait for someone to tell you to cross, that assumes that
there is actually someone there to tell you, that is my problem, no one
walking around.

And if you ask them to tell you when to cross dare you ever treated to
"doesn't the dog know?"--smile

Dan the man, Parker the hound

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Julie McGinnity
via nagdu
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:27 AM
To: Tracy Carcione; NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Noise at the corner

I think that depends on the dog.  Most dogs will just watch carefully if
they notice a car coming in the distance.  Some won't even mind if you tell
them to go when there is a car several feet in front of you.
It depends on how traffic sensitive your dog is and how stubbern too.
:)

I have the same problem.  And then in the summer you have lawn mowing and
other yard machinery.  That gets me all the time.  Usually, I wait or ask
someone to tell me when it's safe to cross.  Sometimes if I think it's
quiet, I go and trust my dog.  There's nothing like being late to class, not
because you're actually running late, but because you've been waiting ato
cross a street forever due to construction noise.

On 6/24/14, Tracy Carcione via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Yeah, sometimes I can't tell those things either.  Distance I'm pretty 
> good at; speed not so much.  So I wait, and it makes my husband crazy.
> But sometimes idiots come flying down the quiet streets near my home 
> as if they were on the highway.  "Yo, this neighborhood is full of 
> kids and dogs!  Be careful!"
> Also, I once heard a lecture, at a NAGDU meeting actually, about 
> untraining your dog's traffic skills by telling him to go when a car 
> is coming.  I may assume the driver will stop for the stoplight, but 
> my dog doesn't know any such thing.  Though it's hard to do in 
> practice, especially in the City, where, if I wait for everyone to 
> stop, I may not have time to get across. Let's just ban those darned cars.
> Tracy
>
>> Tracy,
>>
>> I've always been like that.   I also have difficulty judging distance of
>> cars.  there are some streets I have to cross where there is no light 
>> and not a ton of traffic.  I find myself standing there for what 
>> seems like forever because I can hear cars, but I can't tell how far 
>> away they are to know if I have enough time to cross.  when I'm with 
>> my teen age son, I'll be waiting and he'll tell me that car is over a 
>> block away, I think you can make it.
>>
>> I do exactly as you do, wait.  If I can I'll go around by crossing 
>> the street or taking a different route, but that isn't always 
>> possible or practical.
>>
>> Julie
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tracy Carcione via nagdu
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 8:31 AM
>> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [nagdu] Noise at the corner
>>
>> I am having more trouble these days hearing traffic when there are 
>> loud noises around, like an idling truck, a food truck generator, or 
>> a bus zooming off down the street.  I don't know if it's my hearing, 
>> or just that cars are quieter, but there are times I have to wait out 
>> a light change because I just can't tell what's happening.  And, if 
>> the noise isn't going away, I have to take my best guess or wait 
>> until someone happens along who hears me asking for help.  If there 
>> was a Miracle Ear that damped down loud noises and amped up quiet ones,
I'd get it.
>> Surely I can't be the only person with this problem. What do other 
>> people do?
>> Tracy
>>
>>
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Julie McG
National Association of Guide dog Users board member,  National Federation
of the Blind performing arts division secretary, Missouri Association of
Guide dog Users President, and Guiding Eyes for the Blind graduate 2008 "For
God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who
believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life."
John 3:16

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