[gps-talkusers] e: Re: denied access in a Copenhagen restaurant
- From: "Ann K. Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:47:02 -0500
Hi all,
linda paul writes:
> Hi Mike,
> I guess all of these countries are not the panacia that we
> thought. I was also very disgusted in our own country, Hawaii.
> Most islands were okay, but I had quite a bit of trouble in Maui.
Hmmmmm, I don't quite think you meant this message to come out
sounding the way it did. As it's written now, it appears as if you
think Hawaii is a country. I realize you didn't mean this at all, but
my synthe thinks you did. amazing what a comma will do to the meaning
of a sentence.
Ann P.
> Linda and Linda
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Gerry Leary" <lgerry3@xxxxxxxxx
> >To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 05:44:00 -0700
> >Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: denied access in a Copenhagen
> restaurant
>
> >Hello Mike,
>
> >I am very glad to see that you made yourself heard. Even in a
> foreign
> >country I appreciate that you were verbal about it.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Michael May" <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: "GPS-talkusers-freelists.org" <GPS-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 11:25 PM
> >Subject: [gps-talkusers] denied access in a Copenhagen restaurant
>
>
> >> The GPS helped get us to Visuvio's restaurant in Copenhagen but
> the front
> >> door is where the access ended. It is rare for me to run into a
> situation
> >> where I am absolutely denied access to a restaurant because of
> my Seeing
> >> Eye dog. It is so frustrating and humiliating when it happens.
>
> >> The two previous restaurants we went to in the last day objected
> to the
> >> dog but they didn't protest long. I know every angle in the
> book and
> >> Visuvio's wasn't budging. We argued in the doorway for 20
> minutes or so. I
> >> called a blind Danish guy in the local blindness organization
> and he
> >> explained that there isn't any specific legislation about dogs.
> It is hard
> >> to know how general descrimination law applies in Denmark. We
> did pass one
> >> other dog guide user on the street so it isn't the fact that
> there are no
> >> dogs here. Anyone know the actual law about dog guides in
> Denmark?
>
> >> I really hate backing down. I was prepared to stand in his
> doorway the
> >> whole evening but then there was the matter of our business
> dinner to
> >> consider so eventually we relented and used the GPS to see what
> other
> >> restaurants were nearby. Wouldn't you know we ended up at an
> Australian
> >> restaurant. I will definitely make good on filing a complaint
> about
> >> Visuvio's. I sure hope I don't run into too much more
> discrimination on
> >> this trip through 5 European countries. It isn't any fun.
>
> >> Mike
>
>
>
> >> Michael G. May
>
> >> CEO Sendero Group
>
> >> Developers and distributors of BrailleNote GPS
> >> Distributing BrailleNote, VoiceNote, Talks, Miniguide, The
> Tissot Silen-T
> >> tactile watch, and the ID Mate bar code reader
>
> >> MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> http://www.SenderoGroup.com
>
> >> 1-888-757-6810, Fax (530) 757-6830, Mobile (530) 304-0007
> >> Sendero Group, LLC
> >> 1118 Maple Lane, Davis, CA 95616-1723, USA
>
> >> Latitude, 38 33 9.239 North
> >> Longitude, 121 45 40.145 West
>
>
>
>
>
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