[nagdu] EXTERNAL:Re: A true allergy case

[Lyn Gwizdak]

Ditto that, Dan!

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Weiner" <dcwein at dcwein.cnc.net>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
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Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 7:07 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] EXTERNAL:Re: A true allergy case


> No meeting of the minds needed, if he's a cab driver, he needs to take 
> you.
> Granted, I'm certainly not glad he has allergies, but I'm talking a 
> strictly
> legal basis here.
> He tries to refuse you, he's not allowed to.
> He wants to be a cab driver, let him do his job.
>
>
> If his allergies cause him not to be able to function in his job, I think 
> he
> would need a doctor's note or something along those lines.
> A cabby told me once that none of them want to get that type of thing,
> because you're not supposed to have any health issue  which would impair 
> his
> driving ability.
> If so, it would have to be on record.
>
> I would have, actually more sympathy, even sincere and genuine sympathy 
> and
> affection for him,  if he said something about allergies but said he knows
> he has to take you, rather than just trying to refuse you outright.
> All right, no one wants headaches and your pollen allergies, Becca, and 
> so
> on sound beastly,  I send you my sympathy..
> I've had a sister who's spent most of my dog guide career whining about
> allergies and she agrees with me about this, actually.
>
> Now, Becca, and I am sorry as a friend you have this problem, is it
> preventing you from going in to work? How many jobs at work are you able 
> to
> refuse because of your allergies?
>
> Just putting it in to perspective.
>
> And, the NFB party line notwithstanding, blindness does impair some life
> functions, that's why we need to have guide dogs or canes in public 
> places,
> these are prosthetic devices substituting for some faculties which sight
> would allow us to have recourse to.
>
> I swear, we blind spend more time being sympathetic and revoltingly
> understanding of everyone else, time to feel some self-worth guys.
> The bottom line is, it isn't my problem, I mean, not my problem that he 
> has
> a cab and has allergies.
>
> I have a bad reaction to cigarette smoke, I see no one giving me much
> consideration, just the way it is.
>
>
> Dan W. and the Carter Nut
>
>
>
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