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Leave handicap stalls for the handicap

8/21/2012

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I feel I need to tell of the importance of reserving handicap bathrooms for handicap people.  Here's why;   a few weeks ago, I was at a public restroom and I was holding the door open and waiting for Cass and Kara (her bff).  While standing there, a mom brought her son into the bathroom.  He was in a wheel chair and had oxygen.  Someone was in the handicap stall, who was not handicap,  and this boy could not wait. So his Mom was helping him get up and try to fit into a regular stall with his tubes dangling and trying to reach the distance and then his oxygen tank fell onto the floor. It was heartbreaking to watch. Yet , if the handicap stall was free, his Mom could have wheeled right in with him and it would've been much, much easier for him and her.

 Then last night, it happened again, an elderly women using a walker was waiting to use the bathroom and when Cassidy came out of the stall, I asked the women if she wanted to go in and she said she needed a handicap stall, but they were all taken (by non-handicap people). She said people don't honor them. I felt terrible because she was waiting while Cassidy went to the bathroom and then I while I went and when I came out she was still waiting.  Not fair.
 
I always needed the handicap stalls with Alec, and I would sometimes take Cassidy in them   because it gave us more room and less touching of the dirty bathroom stuff.
 I will never use a handicap stall again, because however inconvenient it may be to wait a few minutes longer when the handicap stall is free, or however more convenient it would be so your kids don't touch the dirty walls, just think of how much , much more inconvenient it is for a person with a handicap to have to wait or fit into a regular stall-- because this boy could not wait the few minutes.
I  share this because I used to think that if noone was waiting,  then it was ok, but at any second someone could come in and need it.
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Holly
8/21/2012 10:21:20 pm

There should be more people like you in the world, Laura. ♥

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anne
8/22/2012 02:15:47 am

Soo true...and I would bet that most if not all of us have on occasion used the handicap stall when it's been available, but as you note you in fact never know who might enter the restroom after you and what their needs might be. Your story certainly drives the point home and I for one will refrain in the future. Even the little changes that we can make can make a big difference for someone else...thanks for helping us see them Laura! Love you! AA

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andrea
8/22/2012 04:53:52 am

I am guilty of using them too! Mostly because i have two little ones and when im alone somewhere with them i go in because we all fit,and i cant leave them outside of the stall. But i will find a different way now. Thankfully some places have family bathrooms like the mall. Very good point made Laura.

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