always answer with "yes deer".
makes the world go round does that one hahaha.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Gammon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: Blind people and rest rooms
> Well, that was a few years ago, so admittedly, I have lost some
> of that attentiveness. Jim WA6EKS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Colin McDonald <[log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date sent: Fri, 31 May 2013 00:19:32 -0600
> Subject: Re: Blind people and rest rooms
>
> attentively listening to her?
> you must be a special guy...usually stuff my YL says goes in one
> ear and
> straight out the other...at least that's what she keeps telling
> me so it
> must be true hahaha.
> she'd never ly or make up some story would she?
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Gammon" <[log in to unmask]
> To: <[log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:11 PM
> Subject: Blind people and rest rooms
>
>
> Well, once at Disney Land, my wife who needed the rest room
> walked in with me tagging along right there with her. We got
> all
> the way in before she realized that I was still there,
> attentively listening to her.
> Thanks for the funny stories Sylvia. Jim WA6EKS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sylvia Bernert <[log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date sent: Thu, 30 May 2013 18:12:00 -0600
> Subject: Re: sighted wife
>
> Since we're on this topic of blind and sighted, I thought I
> would
> share a
> funny but embarrassing story that happened a few years ago.
>
> My daughter was probably 6 at the time. She's almost ten now.
> One day we
> were out somewhere and I kindly asked her to walk me to the
> Ladies' room.
> So she walked me to the door and said, "Okay, here you are,
> Mom,"
> and
> quickly left. She didn't go inside with me. She just waited
> outside the
> door. When I walked in I heard a voice say, "Hello." who
> happened to be my
> husband. To which I responded, "Hello Dear, what are you doing
> in here?" I
> ran out of that restroom so fast. Later my husband said that
> just before I
> walked out of there, there were a couple men washing their hands
> who were
> trying very hard not to burst out hysterically. I've never let
> my daughter
> live that one down.
>
> Then there was a time when her grandpa was with us and I again,
> asked her to
> walk me to the Ladies' room. Grandpa noticed her vearing me
> over
> to the
> Mens' room; he made a point to watch closely. So when he saw
> that he said,
> "Don't you walk your mother to the Mens' restroom." My daughter
> gave him a
> scowl expression, and Grandpa commented, "Boy, she can sure be
> honery, can't
> she?" Needless to say, I think my daughter gets her prankster
> streik from
> her dad. LOL!!
>
> Sylvia Bernert
> "If you can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Howard Kaufman
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:04 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: sighted wife
>
> Jerry, everybody does something well, and nobody does everything
> well.
> Honesty is the best policy, the truth shall set you free. The
> cane explains
> why you do what you do, and why others do what they do.
> I get near the men's room by asking the waitress to direct me,
> taking her
> arm and holding my cane to the door. Inside, I know a couple of
> things.
> If it isn't the size of a home bathroom, the sinks are near the
> door, with
> the urinals placed around a wall, so if the door is opened,
> nobody sees. If
> I don't hear anybody, I explore, if I do I ask. The cane will
> find what I
> don't want to touch. After years of struggle, I have learned
> that the more
> comfortable I am in asking, the more comfortable people are with
> answering.
> So I'll ask towels or blowers? Where do the towels go? Stalls
> are easy to
> find anyway. I wouldn't do any of this with out a cane, because
> the cane
> explains why I am asking.
>
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