[nagdu] Beyond the Obvious...How Does Your Guide Assist You?

[David Andrews]

Yes, but just in case ... can I borrow your dog for a couple weeks?

Dave

At 08:13 AM 3/11/2011, you wrote:
>More likely God than the chick magnet.
>
>On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Lisa Irving wrote:
>
> > I rest my case. The chick magnet thing worked on your behalf-- 
> God too. Blessings and wishes for another 50 years of marital bliss!
> >
> > Lisa and Bernie
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Buddy Brannan" <buddy at brannan.name>
> > To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog 
> Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 4:32 PM
> > Subject: Re: [nagdu] Beyond the Obvious...How Does Your Guide Assist You?
> >
> >
> >> Cindy's right. In the main, you seriously don't want to know. 
> Mind you, there are exceptions, but in my experience, rare ones. 
> Yes, suffering from marrital bliss. Ten years, and she ain't kicked 
> me to the curb yet, though lord knows, I'm sure she's been sorely 
> tempted. She'd never say so though, she's far too kind. We're going 
> on a cruise next week for our tenth anniversary. Very exciting.
> >> --
> >> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> >> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mar 10, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Cindy Ray wrote:
> >>
> >>> You probably don't want to know the chick magnets. LOL. Sides, 
> Buddy is suffering from marrital bliss.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mar 10, 2011, at 11:52 AM, PICKRELL, REBECCA M (TASC) wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Buddy's dog may be a chick magnet, but he may not be catching 
> the chicks he wants. Nobody ever said what kind of chicks a chick 
> magnet would attract.
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org 
> [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Irving
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 12:37 PM
> >>>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> >>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Beyond the Obvious...How Does Your Guide 
> Assist You?
> >>>>
> >>>> Buddy, I've always heard that besides a dog being a man's best 
> friend, it is
> >>>> a for sure chick magnet. What? this isn't so? Wonders never cease! Well,
> >>>> dear, I'm sure your dog is your best friend and takes real 
> good care of you
> >>>> {that's about the time I pat you on the head and smile condescendingly}
> >>>> LOL
> >>>>
> >>>> Lisa and Bernie----- Original Message ----- From: "Buddy 
> Brannan" <buddy at brannan.name>
> >>>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
> >>>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 8:12 AM
> >>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Beyond the Obvious...How Does Your Guide 
> Assist You?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> My experience mirrors Cindy's experience 100%. I've nver 
> found that my dog
> >>>>> was any sort of "social icebreaker", "social aid", "social conversation
> >>>>> opener", or anything of the sort. There are lots of budding 
> novelists out
> >>>>> there, though, and they wanted to know all the particulars of my dog.
> >>>>> Where did I get him, how old is she, (even though all mine have been
> >>>>> male), I had a dog just like that, except it was black, he's 
> so beautiful
> >>>>> and takes such good care of you (even if he was late with the rent this
> >>>>> month). Maybe I'm socially inept, an assertion I won't argue because it
> >>>>> could well be true, but I've *never* been able to get people 
> past my dog
> >>>>> and onto anything else. Nine people out of ten couldn't give 
> a rip about
> >>>>> me, or anything. I could be the most interesting person in the world:
> >>>>> world traveled, accomplished, rich, successful, or whatever, but no one
> >>>>> would care much. I have a cute dog, and that's about all i was worth,
> >>>>> really. No cute dog, who cares? If someone saw me without my 
> dog sometime,
> >>>>> "Hey, where's your dog?", and that would be about it. So, yeah, I'm
> >>>>> totally not on board the whole social icebreaker thing, I 
> just don't see
> >>>>> it. It is, in my mind, one of the distinct disadvantages of 
> having a guide
> >>>>> dog, actually.
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> >>>>> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Mar 10, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Cindy Ray wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I don't know if it is me or what, but I find this idea that 
> the dog helps
> >>>>>> me in a social way to be pretty much 0. I find that people 
> don't think of
> >>>>>> me beyond my dog. They want to know his name, but they don't even care
> >>>>>> what mine is, and they don't want to know what I'm doing. They want to
> >>>>>> pet, coo, cluck, chirp, and talk about him, but they don't 
> care about me.
> >>>>>> I always found this to be a problem, and I often have to 
> steer them away
> >>>>>> from that topic if I want to be talking about something else 
> that is more
> >>>>>> important at the time. Once when I was married to Dr. Chuck 
> he went with
> >>>>>> me to my daughter's teacher conference and we wondered if we 
> would get to
> >>>>>> it for the questions the teacher was asking about the dog he 
> had. Now, I
> >>>>>> agree that we need to educate, but there's a time. But one of my dogs
> >>>>>> saved me once from falling down an unguarded hole. We walked 
> up to it and
> >>>>>> she stopped. It looked like a curb at the first thought, but when I
> >>>>>> started to step down it, tentatively, of course because a 
> curb  had not
> >>>>>> been there before, there was nothing but space.