[gps-talkusers] e: Re: denied access in a Copenhagen restaurant

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
 > 
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 > >> Longitude, 121 45 40.145 West
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
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 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 

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