Before today, I honestly thought that this place was a really great place to take my client for breakfast, as she takes a very long time to finish eating. She has down syndrome and dimensia and some other pretty severe things. We get looked and talked about and laughed at a lot by people who just don't understand. And this was a place in which I thought it would never happen! But it did. And not by people who I thought it would. No, it wasn't other customers. It was by the lunch crew who work there. 3 if not 4 females...As she was still eating on her pancakes, it was 11:20, I turned around and noticed 3 or 4 women/ girls watching us. And one had the audacity to say very much out loud that "thank God they don't charge people to just sit at their restaurant like other places do"...yep, I heard and understood that they were upset about us taking so much time to eat. Even when I still had our tray and garbage on the table where we were seated. Yes, my client was making lots of faces as she ate, just enjoying herself as she usually does. I did not and never will understand what the problem was. There was more than enough seats for everyone who came in and plenty open seats that weren't even sat in. The breakfast crew have seen us in there every Tuesday morning for the past few weeks and welcome us with smiles and warmth. As they should or any place of business. But to hear that, I was appalled. My client was oblivious to anything that was said or whatever. I didn't want to write this or call them out or anything, but I am. Because I don't want this happening to other people with disabilities like hers or worse. It's very disgusting that they think their behavior was acceptable. It was not. And never...
Read moreI visited Moscow and took the overnight train to Saint Petersburg in the late 1990’s as a part of a US delegation to Russia. Then the economic conditions there where grim. Outside Red Square, an elderly woman begged me for 25 cents for a potato for her evening meal. I did not have change. I look in my wallet and I did not have a 1 dollar bill either, but I had a 5 US dollar bill, so I gave that her. She looked at me, with tears in her eyes, and said, “Thank you!!! God bless you!!! God bless you!!!” I am afraid the conditions there will be grim again due to Dictator Putin’s war against Ukraine. Putin and the Russian army should go home. Please, let us live in pease!!! I would love to visit your country again. In fact, I have paid a deposit for a river trip from Moscow to Saint Petersburg this summer. It looks like that trip will not happen. That is very unfortunate for me and the many beautiful Russian people that I would have met along the way. My thoughts and prayers are with you! I hope this Russian war against Ukraine is over soon and the Ukraine people can return to a...
Read moreUsed to think they were just fine i mean it's McDonald's but once my gf and her brother got food poisoning it became somewhere we will not go again. Even though it had happened once despite every time we had went there I just feel the manager didn't really care about it. I was waiting in lobby for a long time, the urge to make it right and keep us as customers didn't exist at all with the manager and they only refunded us on what we got sick from. The whole order should've been refunded because of all the medicine we bought and the fact they had to miss 1-2 days of work due to their lack of sanitary and food quality procedures. I get you're not supposed to admit fault to food poisoning but don't try and act like I'm lying for some cheap a** food. I supervise fast food every day I know how long it takes to get food poisoning and they just weren't being reasonable. They were more focused on "firing " anyone who did something wrong instead of wanting us to come back there and spend the 30 plus dollars we normally...
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