Surprise Inconvenience

A source inside the Sacramento county administration building reports on suspicious signage:

Our whole County building is under construction, and now all the handicapped restrooms are blocked by construction walls, so that there is only one in the entire administration building. On the doors to all the other ones, which are now blocked off, there is a huge poster meant to explain the delays. The poster says, “What happened to the ADA restrooms? Remodeling projects always have surprises…” and then goes on.

Oh, that’s what it is? A “surprise?” As in, “Surprise! You wheeled yourself all the way over here to go to the bathroom but now you have to go down 5 floors and wait in line for the one that’s available.” That’s a pretty crappy surprise. Also I love how they’re specifically referred to as “ADA restrooms” as in “the restroom you only get to use because of a court order, not because we care about accommodating handicapped people.”

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Author: CoolDMZ

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10 thoughts on “Surprise Inconvenience”

  1. Aww! Can’t get the wheelchair through the door? YOU ARE ALREADY SITTING DOWN! PUT ON A PAIR OF DEPENDS AND DEAL WITH IT. You won’t feel the wetness/lump anyway, seeing that you are in a WHEELCHAIR, right?

    Yeah yeah- overly cruel and sarcastic. I watch my tax dollars swirl down the ADA drain as the city is installing “handiramps” at every street corner (can’t you wheel down to the driveway? You gotta cross right there??), annoying “BEEP-BOOP”s in every cross walk for the blind (what the heck is the WHITE CANE for, if not to stop traffic?), interpreters for every deaf, mute, blind, Kerblachastani refugee who can’t/won’t learn either english or LIP READING, not to mention the fact that they are putting in WHEELCHAIR RAMPS TO HALF DOME so the fattest diabetic can enforce her “right” to visit a state park.

    I’m sick of it. Where’s it all end? We gonna have to drive 2mph so the BLIND can “enjoy their right to drive”?? We gonna get rid of PICTURES in the internet so “EVERYONE HAS THE SAME EXPERIENCE”???

    YOU ARE HANDICAPT. THAT MEANS IT’S A PAIN IN THE ASS (not if you are quad of course) TO GET AROUND IN THE WORLD. Screw political correctness. The reason people DON’T WANT to be paraglegics is BECAUSE IT MAKES IT HARD to do stuff. Can’t fit into the bathroom? REALLY SORRY about your situation. Wheel your “differently abled” ass down to the ADA compliant gas station. Just like the REST of us would have to do if OUR bathrooms were being worked on.

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  2. I can’t think of anything snarky to say. I hope nobody else comments so that your comment can stand alone in its complete jackassery.

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  4. Squrity tip: I do not believe in Karma so I will not waste my afternoon hoping that you get hit by a car or paralyzed by a stroke.

    You are clearly an idiot. Therefore I will also not waste my afternoon worrying about the possibility of you ever being in a position to do anything of impact with your small-minded and anger-driven viewpoints.

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  5. Now I think we should all be a little more understanding. Obviously, Squirty Tip has a handicap himself, which is evident in his name. It’s got to be difficult enough to suffer from premature ejaculation and for the ADA to not recognize that as a disability that needs special attention- well, that’s doubly rough. Something like that could really anger a guy so much as to spew ass-headed hatred towards the handicapped.

    Squirty: I can sympathize. Mind you, I CAN NOT empathize. My advice? Tie a rubber band around it to stop the flow, then go fuck yourself.

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  6. Ya- you hate me. But I don’t hear anyone disagreeing- AM I WRONG? No one is saying I’M WRONG!! You will only hear the rest of the population in an uproar after they rename it “Half-person Dome” and when everyone has to yield to the white “blind driver” cars going 2 mph…

    My citations:
    http://www.localhikes.com/Hikes/MirrorLake_0000.asp [handicapped people get to drive up to the lake- it’s their right]

    http://www.voiceofthenationsblind.org/articles/92/the-road-to-driving-blind—part-one-of-three [Blind hope to soon drive- it’s their right]

    http://shop.store.yahoo.com/buyinprivate/depunbycasgr.html [if only]

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  8. RUNNER GIRL gets the award for being able to respond without going absolutely bizerk with hatred. Her yoga studio (for she clearly must attend one) must be highlighted on SacRag, so the rest of us can go there and learn to see straight even when faced with this kind of insanity. Hooray for Runner Girl! 🙂

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  9. I hope for the future of Squirty-Tip’s soul that he/she is mildly joking. You never know when you or a loved one will need those facilities. Your arms, legs, and bowels may be perfectly functional now, but none of us knows what the future holds.

    Not to be a total downer, but my summer job between my junior & senior years of college was taking care of my father who was dying of cancer. This was in 1991 before most places were ADA compliant, and it was a total bitch to get him into/out of a wheelchair and into buildings that were not yet up to the new code. Compound the sweltering Sacramento sun with a 6’3″, built like a brick sh*thouse 250 pound (at his most ill & rail thin), Indian (feather, not dot) sick man who desperately needed to change his colostomy bag — with no wheelchair ramps or big bathroom stalls. I’m no delicate flower, nor is my patience thin, but it was indeed a challenge & I sing praises to ADA regulations that make REASONABLE accommodations for the disabled.

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  10. Thanks & much love to Megan for the props! The last time I went to yoga (circa ’98) a guy next to me relaxed a few too many muscles during the “sink your shoulders into the magical flying carpet and feel your body float” portion at the end of class & ripped a big one. I never went back.

    Inner peace and tolerance can best be found either on the bike trail or with a 12-pack of Sierra Nevada.

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