In a message to Mike Freeman dated 18 
May 97 13:01, Albert Sten-Clanton writes:
 AS> No, as a guide dog user, I can confirm
 AS> that dogs have no hands.
Ah; I was beginning to wonder there. Thought I might have 
inadvertently embibed a hallucinogen!
 AS> However, if some pedestrians are to be
 AS> believed, they do read signs and
 AS> plan one's destination.  Hands would
Not just pedestrians think this, I'm afraid. I have heard of at 
least one incident wherein a blind person asked a cop for 
directions and the cop tried to give said directions to the dog!
 AS> be needless extras.  Well, maybe
 AS> not:  if Adam could do my programming
 AS> for me at work, I'd have lots of
 AS> time to read the way I used to when I
 AS> was un- and underemployed.
Amen on that one! However, I'd bet at least a meal at the 1997 NFB 
convention that you'd rather be employed and receiving that long 
green than reading in pleasure and scarfing down a surfeit of 
peanutbutter and crackers (grin)!
Mike Freeman; Internet: mikef@pacifier.com; Amateur Radio Callsign: K7UIJ
President, National Federation of the Blind of Washington
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