Peach:
What are we doing here on Christmas Day? We obviously need to get a life. A month ago I was in Costco getting my hearing aids tuned up (seldom does any good but I keep trying), if you've ever been in Costco you'll see lots of obese people driving around those electric carts full of fattening foods, an interesting exercise is looking at what people are buying in the checkout lanes then look at their physical condition. As I came out of the hearing booth I thought I recognized a guy sitting in one of those electric carts waiting to get his hearing aids serviced. Come to find out he was a guy I hadn't seen in over 50 years, I had gone to school with him. While he was waiting we talked, I finally asked him if any of this ADA stuff was helpful to him, he said that the only ones that did any good were the curb-cuts, that when he went downtown before his wife had to turn him around and pull his wheelchair up over the curbs backwards, now she can push him straight ahead up the ramps without turning him around. He hated the high toilets saying he couldn't get up on them, I told him that those real high ones were the original ADA toilets, that due to concerns like he had they lowered them considerably.
He also said that nobody discriminated against him for being in a wheelchair, in fact people went out of their way to help him, the discrimination he felt was much worse was discrimination against him for being old, we both laughed about that, and the fact that young people today were so selfish, inconsiderate, and dumb.
Based upon our conversation, I have to wonder if ADA shouldn't take a hard look at what they are doing, determine what works and what doesn't. I also think that now that we have environmental impact reports for most everything we do, shouldn't congress have economic impact reports created before passing these laws? I'd say that curb cuts are worth the expense, but the wide aisles in small stores aren't.
