[nabs-l] problem with college cafe

[Nathan Clark]

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
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>> He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he
>> that
>> dares not reason is a slave.
>>
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