[nabs-l] problem with college cafe

[minh ha]

Nathan,

There's a big difference between educating the sighted public about
what we need as blind individuals and changing bad habits. Yes, you
can talk to your DS office and security and have them post reminders,
but I would be willing to bet that the issue of chairs sticking out in
your way is not going to be resolved any time soon. I have a guide dog
now so she just takes me around the chairs or stop so I can nudge the
chair out of our path, but when I was using a cane, all I had to do
was nudge the chair in a little bit and I would have room to go on my
merry way. You could try this simple solution to see if it fixes your
problem before tackling other people's lack of courtesy. I also want
to remind you that you're not going to have a DS office or a chief of
security that you could run to in the real world when people don't
have chairs pushed in.

Cheers,
Minh


On 9/19/13, Nathan Clark <troubleclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Tyler,
> As blind people don't we want to educate others around us about what
> we need and makes us the most successful and independent? I don't want
> to rely on a sighted person who walks with me and pushes chairs for me
> for obvious reasons that we all know about. I understand where you are
> coming from and I respect your opinion.
> Sincerely,
> Nathan Clark
>
> On 9/19/13, Nathan Clark <troubleclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Tyler,
>> My school's café is not exactly layid out in a way where you can
>> travel around the outside by the walls and find the opening to the
>> door. Our café has tables that are both pushed up against the wall and
>> in the middle of the café so it isn't exactly a easy navigation like
>> you thought it was.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Nathan
>>
>> On 9/19/13, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler at tysdomain.com> wrote:
>>> 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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>>> Take care,
>>> Ty
>>> http://tds-solutions.net
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>>> that
>>> dares not reason is a slave.
>>>
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