[bksvol-discuss] OT - Sighted Guide Incidents
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:23:00 -0600
Sarah and Dave,
I know the feeling. My wife used to run me into things, too. She ran me
into a street sign once in D.C. while trying to catch up with her mother and
aunts. I ruined an expensive pair of Vuarnet sunglasses that time. She
also ran me into a four-by-four which happen to be leaning across a sidewalk
at an angle propping up a cover for a covered sidewalk which was under
construction. She was busy talking to her mother and walked right under it.
I wasn't so lucky.
Now I have a guide dog named Paseo.
I can't blame a woman for the time I walked off into a pool, though. I'm
not even sure I can blame poor eyesight on that one since it might have even
happened before I became legally blind.
Just for the record, I had just come out of a long dark hallway at a hotel
and was on my way to the other side of the pool. The pool happens to be one
of those with a very irregular shape. The glare off the very white concrete
was giving me trouble, and my eyes were having trouble adjusting quickly
enough from the dark hallway. I had thought that I was rounding the end of
the pool when I was actually only clearing one of the cog-like protrusions
from the pool. The next thing I knew I was chest deep in water. Well, I
was headed to the other side, and since I was already in, I took the
shortcut.
I don't think a single mother sitting around the pool even noticed.
The only bad thing to result from the incident was that I happened to be the
right age to wear the same size shoe as my mother. I happened to be wearing
a pair of her tennis shoes that weren't washable. She was so tickled about
the incident that she didn't even say anything about me ruining her shoes.
Gerald
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sarah Van
Oosterwijck
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 1:38 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: CSUN
LOL
I could start a war by saying that in my experience women seem to be
better at this kind of behavior. Or maybe it is just that many of my
bad experiences meeting pillars, doors, and protruding hangers were
caused in shopping centers by distracted females, and my mother had so
many opertunities to ram me in to things. I eventually started to hint
to the dangerous people that i might be better off taking responsibility
for my own safety. If I came dangerously close to falling in a swimming
pool or encountering something else unpleasant while being guided by the
guys I knew I could be pretty sure it was intentional and they wouldn't
be able to keep quiet about their intent for very long. :-)
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
----- Original Message -----
From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 12:36 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: CSUN
> Hi Marissa,
>
> Well, if you are going to walk him into walls, potted plants, and
swimming
> pools, maybe you should marry him.
> I speak from experience here, my wife has walked me onto escalators
without
> mentioning where she was headed, observed while someone opened a door
for
> me without noticing that I was headed straight for the door and not
the
> doorway, and set me up to be pushed in my swimming pool. In her
defense, I
> have to say she was distracted, distracted, and malicious,
respectively, or
> maybe that last one should be amused.
>
> Dave
>
> At 01:22 PM 3/14/2005, you wrote:
> >It's true. I'm petrified of Peter, mostly because I'm afraid of
walking
> >him into walls and potted plants, not to mention swimming pools.
> >
> >We'll be renaming CSUN "Revenge of the Klutz". Oh, and Vegas really
> >isn't my cup of tea.
> >
> >Marissa
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter
Scialli
> >Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 10:08 PM
> >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: CSUN
> >
> > Everyone is getting ready for CSUN and it's a lot of work. I'm
> >getting
> >ready by being in Las Vegas for my annual pre CSUN stop over. The
bad
> >part
> >for me is getting up at like 6 in the morning to take care of
business
> >before going out for some fun.
> >I'll be meeting another member of the staff here this weekend, but it
> >isn't
> >Marissa. In reality, she's scared of me.
> >
> >Peter M. Scialli, Ph.D.
> >Associate, Technical Projects
> >The Benetech Initiative
> >WWW.Bookshare.org
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
> >To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 5:40 PM
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: CSUN
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Peter was mingling on the lists and he hasn't been around for a
few
> >days.
> > > It is really upsetting because something must be wrong. Marissa
> >seemed
> > > out
> > > of sorts today but she got all of those e-mails and that is enough
to
> > > upset
> > > anyone. I really hhad to laugh when she ended her message on a
> >positive
> > > note by thanking us for our vigilance or whatever. But that was
> >before
> > > Guido wrote!
> > >
> > > Sue S.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 6:22 PM
> > > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: CSUN
> > >
> > >
> > > Guido,
> > >
> > > After reading Sue's post I realize that maybe there is
> > > a serious reason for your not going to CSUN and I
> > > shouldn't have tried to be funny. I join with her, and
> > > I'm sure with everyone else, in hoping that everything
> > > is all right with you and your family.
> > >
> > > Cindy
> > >
> > >
> > >
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