[misc.handicap] Dogs Of Any Kind

Al.Hoffman@p0.f143.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Al Hoffman) (07/27/90)

Index Number: 9535

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Hi PHil:

     Your comments about guide dogs and blind people's aattitudes 
was well written.  Thanks.  Anyway, I have met the same sort of ratio 
you mentioned about "the good people" and the "bad people,".  I just 
am a sort of nasty person who doesn't like to put up with a jerk no 
matter if they have a cane, dog, or a guide pig!  I think dog users 
who are considerate to the people they are around are easy to deal 
with, and those who aren't are a huge pain.  Its the same with a cane 
user, some cane users wap people and all sorts of stupid behavior 
with their canes, I wap them back, and I probablly will tell a bad 
dog user to take the problem elsewhere!  I hate blind people who make 
poor images!  "thats a good one blind people making bad images!"  
Anyway, sorr about the disjointed irrational nature of this rambling-

-I'm nearly finished.  Maybe a simple policy of "we don't like people 
who are a pain in the butt for no reason." would work?

     Some cane users are a pain because they slap the cane around-
-because they have minimal training, how about a "cane" license!  

Boy wouldn't that get some hackles up!  ha ha ha.
Okay, I'm done now.

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Phil.Scovell@f810.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Phil Scovell) (07/27/90)

Index Number: 9543

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Hi Al,
Your comments about some cane users and the way they treat those who 
might get in the way made me laugh.  I went to the Nebraska school for 
the blind back during the mid sixties and we had one blind teacher 
there.  He would beat you to death with his cane if you got in his way 
so we always gave him lots of room.  One day I went down to his room to 
pick up my books I had left there to go to lunch.  Of course the rule 
was always to walk the right hand side of the halls but his room was on 
the left and there wasn't anyone around so I walked the left side.  
About two feet in front of his door, I slammed into him and nearly 
knocked him down.  He had told us that he had dropped his false teeth 
right out of his mouth once before in public and I could hear his teeth 
rattling around as though they were about to fly free.  I'm laughing so 
hard while I'm typing this that I can hardly type.  Anyway, I figured 
the old buzzard had his cane so I immediately leaped back and dove into 
an open door across the hall.  The rooms were set back inside the walls 
so I hid in one of the door openings.  He began yelling and demanding 
that whoever that was to announce themself.  No sir, I didn't speak a 
word!  I even held my breath for fear he might hear me and beat me with 
his cane.  After a couple of minutes of not being able to find me, he 
walked away.  Years later I was preaching in the very church where he 
was a member.  I went to visit him at the school for the blind and he 
showed me around the school so I could see how it had changed over the 
years.  I never told him I was the one who had nearly knocked him down 
that day.  I guess I'm not a very good Christian but at least I'm alive 
to tell it.
Phil.

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