[nagdu] calling the program was researching programs

Tue Feb 16 15:20:02 UTC 2010

Julie,

I think it's because I live in the same city as both the OCB's headquarters
and the GDB Boring campus.  /smile/  Everyone knows who *They* are when they
suddenly feel a strong urge to call *Them.*  /smile/  Then the concerned
citizen comes to tell me how helful they've been...

It hasn't happened often, but until I started going around with that long
white cane or long black guide dog, I believe the last person who tattled on
me was my little brother, and it has been a long long time since I solved
that problem by moving away from home! /smle/  At least he never claimed to
be doing it for my own good because he cared so much about me.

The majority of people in the little world I wander through these days are
perfectly friendly, positive, etc., etc., and seem to assume that the mere
fact of my walking around is not worthy of alarm, let alone any action on
their part.  I'm pretty sure the few who feel differently have already taken
care of their duty by reporting to DD or reporting to the managers so they
can report to DD, so I guess they feel better now.  /grin/

I don't know if they still worry that Daisy is going to eat me in the
backyard.  Nobody is keeping me up to date on that one.

Fortunately, DD finds these things as ridiculous and worthy of mockery as I
do, so it's all just free entertainment.  Weird, but entertainment,
nonetheless.

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Julie J
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 1:24 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] calling the program was researching programs

Tami,

I've never had anyone call me in...or at least I have never heard about it. 
LOL

I'm not sure who'd they call though?

Julie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tamara Smith-Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
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Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] calling the program was researching programs

> Julie,
>
> I've been told a time or two by someone that they turned me in because
> they're so worried about me and just the OCB to do something.  The way in
> which they tell me leads me to believe they expect me to so very grateful
> and to attend closely to their lecture about going to the OCB and every
> other social agency they've heard of or just dreamed up on the spot 
> because
> I need to learn to ask for help.  If I can't learn that, they add 
> severely,
> they are done with me and will not help me out again if that's how I'm 
> going
> to be.
>
> The first time, I believed I was miscommunicating, so the second time I
> paused to consider my responses carefully and just never got the 
> opportunity
> to make any of them.  The concerned citizen's half of the conversation 
> went
> exactly the same way that of the previous concerned citizen's had.  So now

> I
> just listen patiently until they get out of my way and I can move on, 
> unless
> I get bored enough to just turn around and go around the block the other
> way.
>
> I guess people see me as approachable enough to keep me in the loop about
> what they're doing to protect me from my dangerously irresponsible
> lifestyle.  Frankly, though, it gives me the willies.
>
> Now that I have a big strong man to take care of me, of course, they just
> tell him about it.  Although when moved to this end of the neighborhood, I
> did learn that the new neighbors were keeping a close watch on me and
> letting the managers know what I was up to.  The whole lot of them fretted

> a
> great deal about the amount time said big, strong man would spend at work
> while leaving me all alone with "those dogs."
>
> I would imagine it's the same thing with people who call the nearest guide
> dog school about rogue handlers out crossing streets and not letting 
> people
> pet their poor overworked guide dogs.
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Julie J
> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 6:19 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] calling the program was researching programs
>
> Jeanine,
>
> It's very good to hear that you don't accept anonymous complaints at GDF.
> If someone can't give their name it would make me wonder about the 
> validity
> of their statement.  It's too easy to make up stories if you can hide 
> behind
>
> anonymity.
>
> Got any ideas why the public doesn't address the blind person directly 
> about
>
> the issue?  Or at least why they don't try that approach first?
>
> Is tattling a societal thing or just a blind people thing?  When I used to
> work in rehab the O&M instructor would occasionally get phone calls about
> some blind person or another who was out alone and crossing dangerous
> intersections or something similarly inappropriate for a blind person to 
> do.
>
> *smile*
>
> I'm trying to think of a parallel situation that doesn't involve blind
> people where sighted people turn each other in for perceived 
> indescressions.
>
> I can't think of any sort of situation.   of a noncriminal nature. 
> Perhaps
> it is a blindness/disability thing exclusively.
>
> Sometimes I think too much! LOL
> Julie
>
>
>
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