I just want to go out for a nice meal

[trouble]

My friend is going to write up a full post at some point, but it's on my mind right now.

My friend was calling around various restaurants in Halifax to find out which ones say they're accessible. (How this differs from reality will become clear shortly.)

"The tables on our second floor are set up for wheelchair height. No, we don't have an elevator, why do you ask?"

"It's accessible once you get inside!"

*sigh*

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[neekabe]

Those were the most failful responces, so my post at my journal isn't much longer.
I expect we'll have more once we start actually going to the restaurants; the guy with the second floor tables had to be pinned down with a "Can you get anywhere without going up or down even one step?" before I could get a useful answer out of him. Who knows how many other ones were just thinking of their washroom facilities.

Though props to Little Fish, who told me that they were technicaly accessable, but they were also cramped for space so they weren't really functionally accessable, especially when busy.

[trouble]

Hopefully the weather will be good enough on Friday that it won't be irritating to go hunting for a place that both serves good beer and is accessible. Are you working Friday?

[neekabe]

Either 12-8 or 7-3 (can't remember). Judging by today beer would be good (hello week). For pubs on the List there's Fife and Drum, Peddlers, and Rogues (though the Bank), though it might be best to scount locations before hand, since they're all over the city.

[trouble]

Don mentioned you were hermitting today. *hug* We will make beer plans for whenever we can make them, and they will be awesome. <3

Wheelchair height?

[roserodent]

FFS what is "wheelchair height" when it's at home anyway? Assuming we all got put in through the window by Superman or something, I use a big powerchair with tilt mech so I am higher than most users, and I have 2 manual wheelchair user pals, one is about 3 feet tall and the other 6 foot 6. Strangely, their wheelchairs are not the same height.

[orbitaldiamonds]

"It's accessible once you get inside!"

*facepalm*

[trouble]

I <3 Halifax, because this is *so* typical of this place. I get told all the time "There's just one step!" Yeah, that's ALL IT TAKES.

[orbitaldiamonds]

*eyeroll*

LORDY.

I don't have mobility issues (being short doesn't count), but I've attempted to write characters who do, and my best friend (who has CP and gets around on wrist crutches) and I are planning a big road trip so I've been seeing accessibility fails all over the place.

The Dillard's I used to work at (Sarasota, FL) was one of the best-selling stores in the South, so corporate started dumping the warehouse on our store, to the point where it wasn't wheelchair, walker, or scooter accessible. Hell, I'm pudgy, I couldn't walk sideways through some of them, so we the salespeople wound up moving racks all day so people could get through, and going into personal shopper mode and bringing people stuff is something we did anyway so we just had to do the best we could.

[staranise]

So once you pass the Gatekeepers of badly-hung manual doors, the Perilous Mountain of stairs, and the Twisting Labyrinth of narrow hallways, you reach the Promised Land of accessibility!

What could be simpler!

[trouble]

*snerk* That's what we need on t-shirts.

I'm going to buy and/or make Don a t-shirt with "No one knows I have a disability" on it, although the "It's a miracle! I can stand up!" one also appeals.

I'm a VERY BAD WOMAN.

[staranise]

I myself am fond of "If you keep staring, I might do a trick!"

[trouble]

Hee! I like that, too. :)