[NAGDU] Day with my doggy!

[Abby Bolling]

Well! I've had a day! and funny enough, my dog was textbook perfect the 
entire time!


  I liked the 5 mile walk with Cricket today!
What I didn't like were the three cars that almost hit me because 
apparently no one knows how to freaking drive anymore!
Did I mention that two of those cars were police vehicles?
both times they pulled out of the street I was crossing to pull someone 
over!
One of them did actually gently tap me in the leg with his bumper, and I 
thought they were going to come after me because I flipped that one off...
So that's fun, and then I get back and tell friends about the idiocy I 
had to deal with.
Friend calls the police station and asks the on duty officer to put out 
some sort of gentle reminder that pedestrians have the right of way. The 
Sergeant says that, "That's not his job," and to call when the captain 
gets back in the morning!
We reached that conclusion after three times of telling him that I am 
blind, I am wearing bright clothing and I have a big black dog with 
reflection tape on her guiding harness.
His next question was "Are you sure it's a service dog?"

Either way! two of your units almost/did hit a pedestrian! do something 
about it!
Nope, we have to call the captain in the morning!
I am so done with people today! Just done!


My dog is now exhausted; we haven't done a walk like that in a very long 
time. and she and I loved it!

-- 
Abigail M. Bolling
Wright State University-2018: Rehabilitation Services
Phone: (513) 512-3456
Email: bolling.8 at wright.edu
Abilities United: Secretary
Ohio Association of Guide Dog Users, a chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of Ohio: Secretary
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