[blparent] Interesting Trip to the Fair
Deborah Kent Stein
dkent5817 at att.net
Fri Aug 5 04:06:51 UTC 2011
I know it can be exhausting to relive and rework these episodes. Still, it
might be a good idea to write a letter to whoever was in charge of the fair
and describe what happened. The task of educating the world is unending,
but when something as egregious as this occurs, I think we need to speak up.
Silence is a tacit acceptance that it's just the way it's going to be.
Debbie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:56 PM
Subject: [blparent] Interesting Trip to the Fair
> Hi. Gerald and I took Stephen and Sarah to the county fair for opening
> night. Overall, we had a great time. Sarah rode her first roller
> coaster--a small one for kids--and just about split her face, she was
> grinning so big.
>
> But something interesting happened at the carousel. Sarah and Stephen
> picked out the horses they wanted to ride, which were next to each other.
> The horses were three across, with Sarah on the outside and Stephen in the
> middle, so I took the inside one, closest to the center of the carousel.
>
> The guy who ran the carousel came over and asked Gerald, "You're going to
> stand next to her, right?"
>
> Well, both of us thought he was talking about Sarah, so Gerald said yes,
> he would. He positioned himself next to Sarah, at the outside of the
> carousel, presumably so she wouldn't fall off the horse or try to stand up
> or something. The ride started, but it stopped after only a few rounds,
> and the operator came back over.
>
> He wanted Gerald standing next to me, if I was going to ride a carousel
> horse! It didn't matter that I'd just ridden a ride that spun me six ways
> to Sunday. It didn't matter that I was a grown-up, and that my
> three-year-old daughter could sit on the slowly bouncing horse
> independently.
>
> We all got off the ride, and three out of four of us had a bad taste in
> our mouths. Thank goodness, Sarah was too young to follow the
> conversation, but I guess she'll catch on soon enough.
>
> I'm choosing to focus on the good time we had for the rest of the night
> and not dwell on the incident. But man, we have a long way to go toward
> equality!
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning,
> unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into
> advance."--Franklin D. Roosevelt
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