Things that crack me up #42
Image description: A color photo posted to Flickr by まてぃあすMattias shows a complicated sign for priority seating on a Tokyo commuter train. The sign shows the stick figure images of five people in green with the reasons they get priority seating highlighted on their bodies in orange. The first guy holds an orange cane (because he's elderly, I think), the second figure is a pregnant woman with three straight cartoonish lines (usually for indicating motion or noise) emanating from the orange heart in her big belly. The middle figure holds an orange infant. The fourth figure wears a giant orange sock, er, cast, and carries an orange crutch. Or maybe it's a cricket bat. And the last figure has orange double parentheses showing off his orange and apparently troubled heart, beating uncertainly in his chest. It's quite a lineup, really.
3 comments:
I like how Crutch Person and Cane Person seem far less conspicuous than Pregnancy Woman and Pounding Heart Person. Makes a nice change.
Sad about Baby Person's deformed hip condition, though.
Hi! Um, just catching up on my blog reading, and I wanted to tell you:
When I was in Dublin, I saw a rather strange version of an, "Only PWD may park here," stencil: instead of the American playskool figure in wheelchair in blue, it was a playskool figure in wheelchair in blue with giant bright red universal no sign stamped over it. Which I suppose means, "NO PARKING HERE! ...Unless you have a PWD parking permit." tried to take a picture but my cell was comatose.
Also, the Aer Lingus flight back home had accessible bathrooms on board. I'm not sure how well they work in practice, but it was still kind of amazing.
--Piny
Piny: There was the well-published photo of Obama voting on election day that showed -- if you look for such things -- a poster on the wall behind him and Michelle with voting info. It had the universal access symbol, Wheelchair Dude, with a red circle and line over him indicating, I think, that the polling site wasn't fully accessible. As far as I know, it's a lack of access notice.
I don't know how Aer Lingus does business, but airplanes are supposed to have foldable manual wheelchairs on board to make those accessible bathrooms of any use. I've never used one. Ever. Never been in a plane's bathroom in my life, since my flying days began after my wheelchair using began. And I've never been on a flight longer than five hours. I always went on a liquid fast before flying because those accessible bathrooms didn't exist when I started to fly.
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