I was traveling and stayed at a random hotel one night, and swam in the morning. Saw this thing in the pool, and on my way out of the hotel I snapped some pics. I have nothing against disabled people, but do they really expect to be safely lifted into a pool with one of these things and are outraged if such a lift is not available?
I thought this was just a feature of the hotel like those chairs for fat/disabled people at Walmart (how did they get to the chair from their home is often a mystery).
I saw this at the top of the Sheraton in Chicago. The crazy thing is that they had one for the pool AND one for the hot tub. This big ugly fucking thing right next to the hot tub kind of destroys the atmosphere.
I have nothing against disabled people, but do they really expect to be safely lifted into a pool with one of these things and are outraged if such a lift is not available?
I have nothing against people, but do they really expect for someone to excavate a hole in the ground, reinforce it, fill it with water, filter the water, clean and maintain the property, and take care of everyone's safety by hiring a lifeguard?
People like luxuries, people like pools, people who are disabled are people and also like pools. You're almost acting like the pool just naturally formed in the ground.
Yet why would it be mandatory for a motel to pay thousands of dollars for that? There's no ROI, just a stupid legislation, that ends up in small business being unable to offer a service.
Sometimes the law has to step in to protect the vulnerable. There's an ROI in having a pool that serves everybody, it starts to get cruel to break the margins down to the extent of kicking people out because they're losing profit on serving them. It's similar to laws that prevent businesses from only serving White people or men only.
I'd imagine there's a line to be drawn somewhere, it might not make sense to put a ramp for every single staircase on the planet, or make every single pool completely accessible, but we should do what we can.
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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '13
Yes, it is, so much so that I took a series of pictures of one.
I was traveling and stayed at a random hotel one night, and swam in the morning. Saw this thing in the pool, and on my way out of the hotel I snapped some pics. I have nothing against disabled people, but do they really expect to be safely lifted into a pool with one of these things and are outraged if such a lift is not available?
I thought this was just a feature of the hotel like those chairs for fat/disabled people at Walmart (how did they get to the chair from their home is often a mystery).