I had an early meeting this morning at a hotel in Manchester.
Now I don't normally do public toilets of any kind after a nasty incident in 2004 with a homeless man, but I was desperate for a wee.
So I used the hotel toilets and when I got in there all the cubicles were in use, apart from the disabled cublicle which is obviously bigger. So I used it.
When I came out there were not one, but two wheelchair users waiting outside. What are the odds? They both abused me for being an "able-bodied bitch with no consideration for the disabled".
I told them to fuck off and stop hanging outside the bogs while I'm weeing. As far as I am concerned disabled toilets are not JUST for disabled people, they are for everyone. I've always thought this but when I got back to work my secretary suggested I'd made a major faux pas.
So who was right? Me or the wheelchair users?
Now I don't normally do public toilets of any kind after a nasty incident in 2004 with a homeless man, but I was desperate for a wee.
So I used the hotel toilets and when I got in there all the cubicles were in use, apart from the disabled cublicle which is obviously bigger. So I used it.
When I came out there were not one, but two wheelchair users waiting outside. What are the odds? They both abused me for being an "able-bodied bitch with no consideration for the disabled".
I told them to fuck off and stop hanging outside the bogs while I'm weeing. As far as I am concerned disabled toilets are not JUST for disabled people, they are for everyone. I've always thought this but when I got back to work my secretary suggested I'd made a major faux pas.
So who was right? Me or the wheelchair users?