[NAGDU] Standing Out

[David]

Well, Henry, I used a white cane for 17 years and encountered your same 
experiences, plus airport cane kickers, car cane crushers, and "You 
ain't blind"ers.  Yup, we'll always stand out, I suppose.  The same will 
happen with you and your new pup: plus those who gush over how beautiful 
he or she is; those who know they shouldn't pet, but do anyway; those 
who believe that you're just training you pup; those you run into after 
they've cut in front of you and stopped and yell at you for running into 
them: and those who will stop you and want to tell you all about their 
former pet who looked just like your pup.  Just like when you used a 
cane, sometimes it will be easy and a chance to educate, sometimes it 
will be incredibly inconvenient and distracting, and sometimes it will 
really get your goat.  Most of the time it will just be incredible.

We're all here to answers questions and offer advice.  Most of all, 
we're all here to cheer you on as you go through the incredible 
experience of becoming a team with your first dog.

Keep in touch.

David and Claire Rose in Clearwater, FL

On 6/6/2016 1:35 PM, Henry Diecker via NAGDU wrote:
> I just returned from a trip to
> Chicago for fun and I experienced everything from a woman telling me that I
> didn't belong there (walking down the sidewalk) to "cane jumpers" to a
> woman in security telling me that I looked silly with my dark glasses and
> cane waiting while my palms were being swiped.  After an inconsiderate or
> insensitive encounter I am often told "well you don't look blind" as their
> justification.  I usually just smile and move on.  Once in a while I can't
> help but respond "hmmm, I thought the dark glasses and long white cane
> might have been a clue".