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.