"It's my story and I'm stickin to it."* excerpted from a Jimmy Buffett song* I found that the folks who could have cared less about a disability is the hot rodding fraternity. They accept you for who you are and what you can do. So what if you need somebody to test drive your results.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Kennedy Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Dealing with people There is no limit to ignorance. I was at the woodworking show a few years back, a huge showing of all sorts of dangerous tools for working with wood. One of the guys selling Forrest Saw blades was on his stage and didn't want to sell me a blade because he didn't know how a blind person could work a table saw and not lose fingers. I can't seem to resist a nasty come back sometimes and told the guy I didn't know how a company with such a good name would let an idiot represent them in the public place. I did manage to resist dropping his $150 blade on the concrete floor. But a lot of people walked away from his display after they heard him. Strangely enough, the next display was for Grip-Tite and the guy running the booth gave me a 2 by 4 and told me to run it through his table saw. I told him about the guy from Forrest and he couldn't believe it. There are good people out there but it's always covered up by the ignorant ones... ----- Original Message ----- From: Jewel To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:04 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Dealing with people One of our department stores had a very good special on 20 inch chainsaws recently, and being a sucker for chainsaws, I went along to buy one. The nasty little jumped-up salesman wouldn't sell me one unless I was prepared to sign a waiver to the effect that if injured, I would not sue them. I had no worry about signing such a document, but it was a clear case of discrimination for anyone can injure themselves with a chainsaw, and do those others have to sign a waiver? no they don't! Now, this is a store that sold me, without hesitation, a rotary garden hoe that didn't have a clutch, even though, for reasons of safety, I had, distinctly, said that a clutch it must have. I did not find that it had no clutch until I got it home and was attempting to find the safety feature I had demanded it * MUST have! When I say a * clutch, I mean that the machine can be put out of gear, so that the hoe tines stops spinning, but the motor is still running. Jewel [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_p age&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach InfoWest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 224108627) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=224108627&m=b9c797dcadd0&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=224108627&m=b9c797dcadd0&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=224108627&m=b9c797dcadd0&c=f REMEMBER: Never give out your account information, password, or other personal information over e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS
