[nabs-l] problem with college cafe

[justin williams]

One thing I do with cafeterais is to get my food to go.  That way I am
carrying a to go box, and I can use my cane and balance a little easier.

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Littlefield,
Tyler
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 1:24 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] problem with college cafe

first, I'm not really sure what chairs being stuck out has to do with
security.
Second, I really do think there are much bigger battles to deal with. 
You could get some person that has to push in chairs after everyone so you
have clear paths, but I've never seen clear paths through any cafe
regardless where the chairs are. My suggestion is to use your cane, find
each individual chair and push it toward the table with your foot. I just
balance my tray on one arm and use my cane with the other hand and it works
out pretty well.
You may also be able to walk around the walls of the cafe (depending on the
layout) to get to the room you want to go to.

On 9/19/2013 1:16 PM, Nathan Clark wrote:
> Dear Nabs,
> My name is Nathan Clark and I am one of the quieter people on this 
> list but I have a situation that I have at my community college where 
> I would like to have some opinions fro you all. about.
>
> Today as I was walking into my school's café I discovered that almost 
> every table that I came upon had chairs that were sticking ot where 
> people had been sitting in and forgot to push their chairs in. My 
> school had a room off the café where students can eat their lunch in a 
> more quieter environment which is where I usually eat my lunch and 
> that is where I wanted to eat today. However, after struggling with 
> navigating through the chairs that were not pushed in I just gave up 
> and sat a different bale and had my lunch. After eating, I went to my 
> school's Secutrity department and expressed my concerns with them. The 
> lady who I talked to is named Sharon and she is not a security guard 
> but the secretary for the department. She knows me very well and she 
> knows from previous semesters that I have encountered this problem 
> before with the café. She helped me schedule an appointment with the 
> Assistant Chieef of Security on Tuesday.
>
> My question for you all is should I have scheduled the meeting or just 
> dropped the problem. What could be some solutions that I could bring 
> up to my meeting with the Assistant Chief for Tuesday? If you were 
> wondering I forgot to say that I talked to my DSS office and they said 
> that they would work with the Secutiry department to solve this 
> problem.
>
> I would like to hear what people have to say and wondering if this has 
> happened to other people on the list?
> Sincerely,
> Nathan Clark
>
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