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well who ever done this deserves the Darwin award both the one who thought of it and the one it ends up happening to. Now picture this this facility is designed for blind people, specifically and no children present. Now we've all either seen heard or done this before I'm sure someone has either seen heard or them self fallen down some stairs, well personally I'd rather not fall down steps, but at least if I do I'd rather go ass first down the stairs now this sounds like something I'd do if someone really pissed me off to the point to where I did not care whether they lived or died, and I've never been that pissed that I can recall. now these fucking retards came up with the bright idea to place a baby gate in the door way at the top of a flight of steps, if I had not seen this for my self, I'd have never believed it my self when I asked what the purpose for this was the response was to protect blind people from falling down the stairs. Now if you ask me the only thing that would insure is busting your face on the top step and going ass over tea kettle all the way down the steps I mean they would be better off placing roller skates at the top of the steps it is a disaster waiting to happen if you ask me so anyone have any thoughts on this? Looks like an easy money ticket if you survive if you ask me
This is just a comment if you have anything funny like this I'd love to hear it. I think this should make for some interesting storys.
personally, I think this is very stupid. can't you tell when your at the edge of the stairs? someone would have to be very stupid not too. how pitifull!
A baby gate? Oh my goodness! When I was little my grandmother would not let me go down stairs because she thought I'd get hurt, I'm serious! I was also not allowed to go outside without her being around because of the steps.
Troy
When I was in a public high school many years ago, one of the janitors had left a bucket of water in the middle of the hallway. He took the bucket, emptied it in a sink, and then, put the empty bucket right back in the middle of the hall.
Lou
yeah Chris. That is sort of stupid. lol. I'm the type of person, where that would just piss me off. I'd stand there, and take the thing down. lol.
That's overprotectiveness, fear of liability and political correctness gone mad! Honestly, as if we couldn't tell we were at the top of a flight of stairs. Hell, I'd perfer to fall down head first than be molly coddled like that. Some things people do...truly odd.
I aggree it is stupid. I have fallen down the stairs but personaly I would prefer to fall down the stairs rather than have something like that.
A baby gate? OMG that's apthetic. I've never heard of such a thing!
I must admit, though, I get a lot of people asking me if I'm looking for the elevator, beause, after all, there's NO WAY a blind person can dclimb up or down stairs!
manic maybe if blind people such as your self could form a mostly coherent post sited people wouldn't have such a low opinion of what blind people are capable of?
Perhaps, Manic, should you choose to get a guide dog in the future, and your school if you choose it has a bar at the top of the stairs, you'll think that's stupid too? When truly it's so that the dog gets the idea that because there's something he can slip under he has to be able to show you who can't? It sounds to me you went to a school for the blind and if you did, I think you got all the pity, coddling, and overall, stupidness you deserve. So no sympathy here, on any front. I was raised like a sighted personw would've been,thank God for that.
i would knock the gate down till it brakes to pieces.
oh, one of the dumbest things i ever witnessed is my college roomate putting freeking newspaper in a form of a wide tube that covers the middle of the room. seriously. what you all think of this stupidness.
To the last post, I'd say the process of educating the sighted is a never-ending one. It could potentially be more of a hazard than not leaving it there. If the room isn't carpeted, maybe you could put a rug under a piece of furniture that divides the room. This way, not only does it perform the function of "dividing the room," but its asthetically pleasing. I'm suggesting the furniture as an anchor so you don't create a hazzard worse than the newspaper snake.
Lou
Ok, well I have a few things to say I guess. I've had baby gates in front of things and of course, I tripped over it and landed on my face. It was to keep the little foster kids we use to have in our house from going upstairs when no one was up there to watch them. One of the things I witnessed, is I'm sure all of you have had sighted people help you cross the street. Well, when I was at SEeing Eye, there was a girl in my class who had her dog with her in either New York or New Jersey, and this man came up to her when she was standing on the corner and offered to help her cross. She said no sir I'm ok. He said oh no, I insist. Then he either grabbed her arm, or the dog's harness, I don't remember which, and tried to guide her across the street. She was so pissed off, and I'd be to. I'm glad no one has ever done that to me. I've had people try and help me by guiding, and I have to politely show them how to do it correctly. For some reason they think they're suppose to hold your arm, and not the opposite way around and I don't understand, but I guess it could because they don't know any better. But I say the more people who know how to do sighted guide correctly, the better. Anyway, that's the only thing I can think of for now, but if I think of anything else, I'll post.
Talk soon,
Jasmin
Well, mum didn't even know about sighted guide when I was in Primary school, so everywhere we went, I'd either be in the buggy till I grew out of it at the age of four, or holding mum's hand. I tried to hold one of my house parents, hands one day when I moved to a new unit and she told me to use sighted guide and she let go of my hand and placed it on her arm. That was the first I'd heard about sighted guiding and the first I knew there was a correct way to guide a visually impaired person.
As for falling downstairs, I was fairly good at it, lollol, but not so good at picking myself up again afterwards. I'd be screaming for mum with a blazing headache.
I only ever fell down the steps on to the patio in our old house once. I remember my Grandad was outside with me and it was one of the first times I'd actually walked down our garden which was quite small. There were two or three steps with a low hand rail by the door in to the garage leading to the patio where I rode my various trikes and pedal cars. On this occation, I think my foot caught on the pebbledash path and I fell down two steps, grazing my knees. As for the stairs in our old house, I always tripped over the gripper rod holding the edge of the carpet on the top step and landed head first in the hall/dining area, quite a painful experience for a two-year-old rebel.
Jen.
Has anyone ever been to lions' world? They actually have the corners of the walls padded. I just laughed and said that'd be great for when you come home drunk. lol
When I first entered college I was the first blind person to go to this particular school, and when I contacted the registrar's office to see about registering they told me they would arrange my schedule for me. I figured, that's okay and let it go, but I didn't hear from them for a couple of days and got kind of anxious. So I called them up to see if they had my schedule ready. They said that they had all but one class ready. They couldn't find a Spanish class on the ground floor. I got a big kick out of that and told them I'd do my own schedule from then on, since I wasn't in a wheelchair and could climb stairs easily.
I've never encountered baby gates unless I put them up for our own two kids. I would think putting them at the top of the stairs would be really really dangerous in any event. We always put ours a few feet back from the top of the stairs to give clumsy people like me a chance to recover from tripping on the gate before they did their superman imitation.
Bob
I don't really have any stories about people trying to guide me or that sort of thing, but I do remember a time when I fell down an entire flight of concret stairs back in primary school. I laugh about it now, but I think I remember just crying, no screaming. I had this really big lump on my head for a while after that. Now that I look back on it, if there had been a baby gate there, I probably would have gotten a worse injury than what I had.
What that had to do with the subject at hand, I don't know. sorry
O, I have well, I wouldn't say it was a brilliant story about sighted people guiding me, but it was quite a scary thing. Mum was guiding us round HMV looking for a couple of CDs I wanted to spend my 21st Birthday money, the day after my 21st Birthday. She was trying to get both of us round this pretty tight corner between this marble pillar and a shelf of CDs. I walked in to the pillar head first! Wham! but I didn't really notice it till a few seconds later, when my head felt like it had split open and then I was laughing uncontrolably and mum was obviously wondering what the hell had just happened. I told her I just hit the pillar, then I just went straight from laughing uncontrolably to sobbing uncontrolably, leaning on mum and feeling bloody embarrassed to be howling my head off in the middle of HMV and hoping against hope, no-one was looking. We still had to pay for my CDs and things, so we went to pay them and the young male cashier asked if I was all right and mum told him I'd bumped my head on the pillar. Then, we went out in to the shopping centre with me still incredibly hysterical and sat on a bench for five minutes so I could try to some degree, to compose myself. That cut short the shopping trip after just two shops as mum took us straight back home and demanded I sit downstairs in the living room for at least 90 minutes so she could keep an eye on me after hitting my head like that. That was around the time I recognised I was hyposensative and I felt abount 20 times more pain than a lot of other people might feel if for example, they hit their head, they go and have a blood test, flu jab or whatever.
Jen.
Oooooh, that had to hurt.
Well, I'm not sure if it hurt me more or really shocked me more, because mum thought I went in to shock at the time.