Dear Abby today deals with handicapped stalls in restrooms. Before I rant about it, please go read the column: http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/ (If you're reading this after today, I'm referring to the May 25th column.)
In case you didn't read it, you lazy animal, basically a woman was standing in a very long line to go to the restroom and a woman in a wheelchair came and parked herself in the front of the line. It just so happened that the next stall to open was the handicapped stall and the woman who was rightfully next in line (and really had to pee) started to go for the stall. The woman in the wheelchair started yelling at that woman and the stunned, full woman deferred after a moment.
Dear Abby gleefully informed the writer that handicapped stalls are for the handicapped and she should have deferred to the woman in the wheelchair.
I wholeheartedly disagree. That woman should have waited in line like everyone else. Mind you, if she were behind me in line, and the next stall to open were the handicapped stall, common decency and all the morals my momma and daddy raised me with would mandate that I let the woman have to stall. But, if there's a huge line, people with disabilities can do the blending in with society that they so force everyone else to let them do and wait in the huge line. You don't have to pee any worse than I do.
Sheesh.
1 year ago
5 comments:
Hi! I agree, the restroom is handicap ACCESSIBLE! And you have to wait your turn to use it. I always use it when I have my three year old daughter with me-we can both fit!
I LOVE the name of your blog! I always call flip-flops "thongs" just to hear my girls say "MOOOOM!" I have noticed that this year "Target" is calling them thongs. They are, after all, much more comfy than the underwear!
i think there is a fine line between providing access and enabling...and i think you are so right.
Ideally the owner of the bathroom should set the handicrapper policy, possibly with a sign posted near the bathroom door.
I have heard many stories like this from my sister. As a teacher of special needs high school kids and a former caregiver for the handicapped, she often ran into this very problem. It takes a great deal of effort to get a handicapped person "ready" to use the toilet. When it is already occupied by someone else, it only makes it that much harder to get them in there before it's too late. Granted, this lady seemed to be using the wheelchair to get the toilet first, but most handicapped people truly need this special consideration. If there are no handicapped people at the store, is it okay to park in a handicapped spot? No. Simply because someone with special needs may come along and need it. I think the same applies to the bathroom.
i think this is one of those cases where the individual was wrong but not the rule...
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