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From: Paula.Mack@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Paula Mack)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Public relations
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Date: 4 May 91 04:14:32 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 DD> Once on the bus, I went back to what I was doing but there were
 DD> a couple of people who wanted to talk about the dog.  Since I
 DD> was concentrating on what I was doing, I didn't hear them
 DD> clearly.  Finally, one of them shook me and told me to answer
 DD> his questions.  Otherwise he would talk to the bus authorities
 DD> to see if such people who wouldn't share the information about
 DD> their wonderful dogs could be kept off the bus.

 DD> I tried just giving short answers, but this man and his friends
 DD> just would not leave me alone so I turned off the BNS and
 DD> talked to them because I sure couldn't get anything done.

But Diana, wouldn't it have been better to have changed seats or to alet
the driver to the fact that you were being harrassed by other
passengers?  I just don't think people have the right to vilate the
privacy of others in that way.  And certainly, they had no right to
shake you.  What I would have probably said to them, I can not say here.

Paula

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