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SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
1. It's about time.
Thu May 26, 2016, 10:54 AM
May 2016

I'm not disabled, but I'm short, all of 5'1 1/2", so sometimes things are too high for me to reach. In places like a supermarket that's not a problem, because I'll ask a taller person to assist me, and they always do.

But sometimes in public restrooms the paper towel dispenser will be rather high up. I can always reach them, but I occasional wonder about a Little Person who might be using that facility. In one hotel that I regularly attend a conference in, inside each stall in the ladies' room near the meeting spaces, there's a hook to hang a purse. It is so high up I cannot reach it. One of these years I'm going to have a discussion with management about it.

And those issues are completely trivial, compared to what someone in a wheelchair faces every day.

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