Mar 2009
A none believer
02/March/2009 01:47 PM Filed in: Leisure
I am a none-believer. When you phone up somewhere you
want to go and ask ‘do you have wheelchair access’ a
yes can mean anything from:
a) We have a huge flight of stairs.
b) We have 6 strong men to carry people.
c) You can get in through the door only.
d) Yes - but don’t expect to use the loo or changing rooms.
e) Yes - complete access to everything a none-disabled customer would expect.
For true equality (e) is
the only option.
Yesterday I went out for lunch for my father-in law’s birthday at a local pub.
Yes meant ‘if you can negotiate an inch or so step immediately followed by a 90 degree turn in a space not much wider than the average adult wheelchair and don’t need the loo’. We took of my foot plate to make me as slim as possible and with husband nearly losing his toes we made it. I count this as quite good past experiences considered.
The best one was a search for an accessible cottage. It listed a lighthouse. I though perhaps the ground floor was a holiday cottage with access - but apparently not, it was a very tall lighthouse with hundreds of steps listed as wheelchair accessible.... beat that!
a) We have a huge flight of stairs.
b) We have 6 strong men to carry people.
c) You can get in through the door only.
d) Yes - but don’t expect to use the loo or changing rooms.
e) Yes - complete access to everything a none-disabled customer would expect.
Yesterday I went out for lunch for my father-in law’s birthday at a local pub.
Yes meant ‘if you can negotiate an inch or so step immediately followed by a 90 degree turn in a space not much wider than the average adult wheelchair and don’t need the loo’. We took of my foot plate to make me as slim as possible and with husband nearly losing his toes we made it. I count this as quite good past experiences considered.
The best one was a search for an accessible cottage. It listed a lighthouse. I though perhaps the ground floor was a holiday cottage with access - but apparently not, it was a very tall lighthouse with hundreds of steps listed as wheelchair accessible.... beat that!
