[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Is that dog real?
- From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:55:24 -0700
Absolutely. "Oh, really? I thought that guy said that this was the plane
to Maine. A train? Are you sure? Did you know my dog's a Dane? Oh, no,
you mean this is a cane? What a pain? On a train to nowhere with a plain
cane? And yes, thanks, I really am sane."
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Natalie B.
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 7:46 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Is that dog real?
You should've replied, "Train? This is a train? I thought I was on a flight
to Florida! And here I thought we were just having bad turbulence!"
Hoo boy. Silly people is what makes life interesting.
Natalie B.
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to
change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
-Reinhold Niebuhr
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From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger25@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 3:36 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Is that dog real?
> No. I had no idea I was on a train. I wonder how I got on here. Oh dear!
> Such dreadful things happen when you're blind.
>
> Sorry, all. Sometimes, my sarcasm must come out, and stupid questions like
> that make it happen.
>
> Shannon
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> From: "Elizabeth and Burton" <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 1:39 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Is that dog real?
>
>
>> How about the person who tapped me on the shoulder while I was sitting on
>> a train and said "Do you know you are on a train?" to which I said "yes"
>> saying it really slowly and grinning. I then added "are you kidding?"
>> and the person walked away without answering. I sometimes think folks
>> talk to us and say strange things because they have noone else to talk to
>> and know we won't hit them or stab them or anything. On the other hand,
>> what kind of lives to they have to say things like that? I have also had
>> people ask me "Do you know where you are going?" to which I reply "Oh
>> yes? Do you?"
>>
>> I know perhaps I ought to be more civil in some of my replies but if you
>> walk up to me, say, on a train where I am clearly sitting down and
>> reading (for bookshare or something) on my braillenote and say strange
>> things I just cann't help myself and I say weird things. The stranger my
>> day has been the weirder the things I say are.
>>
>> E.
>>
>>
>>>Well, smile Cindy, this was in the middle of Walmart, with Judson and
>>>Walker, my friend's dog in complete harness and being held by us on
>>>leashes,
>>>and definitely moving.
>>>
>>>That is why it was so um strange.
>>>
>>>Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
>>>and Judson, guiding golden
>>>juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
>>>Graduate Alumni Association Board
>>>www.guidedogs.com
>>>
>>>Dog ownership is like a rainbow.
>>> Puppies are the joy at one end.
>>> Old dogs are the treasure at the other.
>>>Carolyn Alexander
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 2:34 AM
>>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: Is that dog real?
>>>
>>>
>>>Shelley,
>>>
>>>I l aughed out loud at that question, and the
>>>next--although sometimes, if a dog is sitting still
>>>(and not connected to you, smile) it's hard to tell.
>>>In front of a house we drive past frequently, a medium
>>>size dog sits on a step very quietly and still, not
>>>even moving its head. It sort of looked like the
>>>Victrola dog, only smaller. We didn't know if it was
>>>real or not until one day when it finally did turn its
>>>head.
>>>
>>>Cindy
>>>
>>> >
>>> > I still love the one someone asked me one day.
>>> >
>>> > "So, the sign says I am not supposed to pet him, is
>>> > that true?"
>>> >
>>> > And
>>> >
>>> > "Is that a real dog?" Which my friend and I were so
>>> > dumb founded we didn't
>>> > know what to respond to that one, smile.
>>> >
>>> > Though he is an awful bad toy dog, smile, very
>>> > messsy, and eats a lot,
>>> > smile, was all I could think of, smile.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
>>> > and Judson, guiding golden
>>> > juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> > Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
>>> > Graduate Alumni Association Board
>>> > www.guidedogs.com
>>> >
>>> > Dog ownership is like a rainbow.
>>> > Puppies are the joy at one end.
>>> > Old dogs are the treasure at the other.
>>> > Carolyn Alexander
>>> >
>>> > ----- Original Message -----
>>> > From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 4:30 PM
>>> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How I read
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > LOL!!!
>>> >
>>> > Jana
>>> >
>>> > ----- Original Message -----
>>> > From: "Jamie Yates" <jamieyates@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 7:09 AM
>>> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How I read
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > >I am certainly glad to know y'all are not easy to
>>> > > offend!
>>> > >
>>> > > I have found that in general people ARE easily
>>> > > offended by the least silly things and I for one
>>> > tend
>>> > > to say something first and think about it later
>>> > (bad
>>> > > habit!).
>>> > >
>>> > > And with email, once it's said, it's not easily
>>> > taken
>>> > > back. And especially with email, it's often hard
>>> > to
>>> > > know the context in which the message was
>>> > intended.
>>> > >
>>> > > When that baseball player's plane crashed into the
>>> > > building in NYC, I said to a friend of mine who
>>> > lives
>>> > > near there, good thing it was just a baseball
>>> > player.
>>> > > And she thought I was putting down baseball
>>> > players,
>>> > > when what I meant was, good thing it wasn't a
>>> > > terrorist.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Jamie in Michigan
>>> > > Books gone wild....
>>> > http://www.bookcrossing.com/referral/jamieyates
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