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Showing posts with label LAUGH....KEEP THE SPIRIT GOING. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LAUGH....KEEP THE SPIRIT GOING. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
AN IRONIC SIGN
AN IRONIC SIGN
by
Roberta C.M. DeCaprio
Living life with a walking disability hasn't been easy....and has put me in numerous strange and sometimes frustrating situations when traveling about this vast world. I've entered buildings that say they're assessable, have a ramp and all....but once inside there is no way for a wheelchair user to get to the second floor (no elevator, just stairs), and that's always where the rest rooms are located. I've also come upon some ironic signs.
The one I found the funniest (it is better to laugh at these things...keeps the spirit going) was a sign posted at a co-op market/cafe in Albany, NY. I was scheduled to read some of my poetry at an open mic and after parking the car a block away (no assessable parking), I approached the front of the building and sighed in frustration upon spotting the stairs. On the door a sign was posted....letters so small I could hardly read the words from where I was positioned. But with a squint here and there I was finally able to make it out, and it read: HANDICAPPED PATRONS RING BELL FOR ATTENDENT TO OPEN ACCESSABLE ENTRANCE AT THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING.
Another ironic sign. If I could make it up the stairs to ring the bell, I wouldn't need nyone to open a special entrance. To assume every physically challenged person is accompanied by an able bodied person was the propriator's drastic oversight.
After getting a passer-by to ring the bell for me, I did make it in time to read my poetry at the open mic....but I also added a little more to my alloted time.... a word of wisdom for the one who posted the sign.
by
Roberta C.M. DeCaprio
Living life with a walking disability hasn't been easy....and has put me in numerous strange and sometimes frustrating situations when traveling about this vast world. I've entered buildings that say they're assessable, have a ramp and all....but once inside there is no way for a wheelchair user to get to the second floor (no elevator, just stairs), and that's always where the rest rooms are located. I've also come upon some ironic signs.
The one I found the funniest (it is better to laugh at these things...keeps the spirit going) was a sign posted at a co-op market/cafe in Albany, NY. I was scheduled to read some of my poetry at an open mic and after parking the car a block away (no assessable parking), I approached the front of the building and sighed in frustration upon spotting the stairs. On the door a sign was posted....letters so small I could hardly read the words from where I was positioned. But with a squint here and there I was finally able to make it out, and it read: HANDICAPPED PATRONS RING BELL FOR ATTENDENT TO OPEN ACCESSABLE ENTRANCE AT THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING.
Another ironic sign. If I could make it up the stairs to ring the bell, I wouldn't need nyone to open a special entrance. To assume every physically challenged person is accompanied by an able bodied person was the propriator's drastic oversight.
After getting a passer-by to ring the bell for me, I did make it in time to read my poetry at the open mic....but I also added a little more to my alloted time.... a word of wisdom for the one who posted the sign.
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