I noticed that the new
coffee shop down the street must’ve recently installed a ramp on their front
door. That really sucks because now that it’s accessible, I feel obligated to go
there,
My wife and I have been bitching
at them for having a step on their entrance and no ramp. My wife is in a
wheelchair too. And then they went and put in a ramp and they didn’t make us sue
them or anything.
So now I feel like a poster child for that old
saying: “Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.”
It’s like my deaf friends
who have told me about how they bitch about public events that don’t have sign
language interpretation and/or captioning to make it accessible for people like
them. And then sign language and/or captioning gets added and then they feel
like they have to go because if deaf people don’t show up, the people who
organize the event might stop doing sign language interpretation and/or
captioning. So, they have to pick their battles. If there’s a Jehovah’s Witness
church service, for example, that doesn’t have sign language interpretation
and/or captioning, they might not want to bitch about it.
And so now I feel like if I
don’t run over to that new coffee shop right away and give them my business,
they might take the ramp away and that’ll be my fault. It’s pretty stupid for
me to feel that way, don’t you think? It
just goes to show that even the cripples that
bitch the most still feel guilty about it deep down inside when we speak
up for ourselves. We feel we have to make up for it somehow.
Whatever it all means, I know for sure that if
a Jehovah’s Witness temple opens up around here and it doesn’t have a ramp, I
won’t say a word about it.
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