[gps-talkusers] Re: BrailleNote's shoulder strap and good clothes

Thanks, Mike.  I don't think I'm in danger of snagging someone with my BN 
case lid, as I usually hold it closed when walking.  But I'll keep that in 
mind when I'm reading the Braille display while using GPS and 
walking.  <smile>  I wonder if a shoe person could come up with a different 
type of strap.  It's interesting that the strap snagging clothes wasn't 
considered when designing it.  I wonder if they either figured blind people 
wouldn't wear nice clothes when carrying their BrailleNotes, or that they 
wouldn't be so addicted to them that they'd want to use them all the time 
like me.  <grin>

Peggy

At 08:33 PM 9/13/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Peggy,
>
>One thing to watch out for is that the mail Velcro on the BrailleNote lid
>or other places does not snag a nice swetter. My wife was very upset once
>when she was guiding another blind person and his BrailleNote did such a
>thing. I was still held responsible even though it wasn't me who did it.
>
>You could certainly get another type of shoulder pad. Like I did recently,
>go to your local shoe repair store and have them add whatever you want to
>your strap.
>
>People who are vertically challenged may also want to have the shoe guy or
>gal shorten their shoulder strap as they don't get short enough for some
>people.
>
>Mike
>
>
>
>
>At 06:56 PM 9/13/2004, you wrote:
> >Hi, all.  I tried to send this earlier, but used the wrong nickname for one
> >of the lists, and haven't seen it come through to either, so am resending
> >to both.  (I wonder what poor person might have gotten my message and
> >wondered what in the world I was talking about?  <shuddering and
> >blushing>)  Anyway, I'm trying again.  <smile>
> >
> >Peggy
> >
> >Hi, all.  I'm posting to both the BrailleNote and GPS lists, since I'm sure
> >most of us at one time or another wear our BrailleNotes so we can either
> >read or write while standing, or use our GPS systems while walking.
> >
> >I'm involved in Sacramento's annual BEST OF BROADWAY production, and since
> >what I do is sing in the pit (a little booth with microphones, where we're
> >allowed to use words and music), I have the words to the songs on my
> >BrailleNote, which I wear while singing so I can read the words.  We're
> >only visible from the chest up, or maybe from the chin up, so it doesn't
> >look weird.  Anyway, I've been wearing a nice white blouse, but at the end
> >of this weekend's shows, after washing the blouse, I asked my husband to
> >look at it to make sure it looked okay.  Apparently, because of the type of
> >material it is, the BrailleNote strap had caused little snags on the
> >shoulder, especially where the rubber thing goes.  We bought a little
> >seatbelt pad thing that's sold to make seatbelts more comfortable, and I
> >velcroed it to the BrailleNote's strap around the rubber thing.  It feels
> >more comfortable, and we're hoping that will keep me from snagging the new
> >white shirt I bought.
> >
> >I'm just wondering if anyone else who loves to carry their BrailleNotes
> >with them and occasionally has to do so while wearing nice shirts, has had
> >to deal with a situation like this.  If so, how did you handle it?  I
> >suppose I could just Braille the words to the songs and put them in a
> >binder, but after the next two weekends of shows, I won't need them, and it
> >seems so much easier to just delete files and folders rather than to
> >Braille all kinds of stuff only to turn around and through the papers away.
> >
> >So I'll be interested to hear if this has ever been an issue for any of
> >you, and how you handled it.
> >
> >Peggy
> >
> >
> >
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