[Ohio-talk] FW: [DGV] Blind woman, mistaken for drunk, refused service at bar

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I'll drink to that, and pray that the woman not only orders a cane but also that she submit a change-of-name request to the  local clerk of courts.

Here's another funny story about a disabled person.  It seems a lepper cowboy threw his leg over his horse after throwing in his hand at a card game.


---- Deborah Kendrick via Ohio-talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote: 
> This might make you laugh out loud, but it's really pathetic, too.
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> Actually, reminded me a bit of the Mock Trial this summer, which was
> hi-la-ri-ous!
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> Deborah
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> Subject: [DGV] Blind woman, mistaken for drunk, refused service at bar
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> Blind woman, mistaken for drunk, refused service at bar
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> http://www.my9nj.com/chasing-news/12090305-story
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> Hamilton, New Jersey (My9NJ) - Hamilton resident Megan Mycock started 
> losing her sight 11 years ago. She lost her left eye and can barely see 
> out of her right. She's been declared legally blind.
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> Mycock's conditions have cost her ability to drive, a job she loved, and 
> now some of her dignity.
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> At the Ivy Tavern, the bar owner saw her clenching onto someone else's 
> arm while walking into the bar and mistook her for being drunk, denying 
> her service.
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> "The bar tender Deb came up to me and she said 'This is awful because we 
> all know you can't see', meaning the staff. Yeah, I've been in there 
> about 3 times, I want to say in the last 2-3 months," Mycock stated.
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> However, this isn't where the loss of dignity ended.
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> Mycock added, "A patron that was talking back and forth with this 
> gentleman, all I know is that I could just see that he was tall and 
> thin, he was saying 'Stevie Wonder'."
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> After hearing that Mycock was blind from multiple people, the owner 
> offered her a drink, but she didn't take it-she left instead.
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> Chasing News wanted to take her back to the bar for an apology. The 
> owner wasn't there but his wife, Elaine Russo, was.
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> "I mean, whoever your significant other was, when you walked in the 
> door, I mean you have to look at my end of business," Russo stated.
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> Mycock chimed in, "I'm not upset with you, your husband was ignorant."
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> Russo fired back, "When you walked in he said to me 'Oh my god, look at 
> this girl she can't even walk."
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> "Everybody at the bar was making comments about me, you know how 
> uncomfortable I felt and I have to live this way every day, you don't 
> have to," Mycock stated.
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> All in all, the conversation ended with an apology from Russo.
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> "And I'm so sorry you that had to go through this, because I mean you 
> know, you try to get through life and be a positive thing, and I totally 
> understand that you were embarrassed. I mean I don't know what else I 
> can say," Russo said.
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