Discrimination Against Vertically Challenged People
By kellys3ps
@kellys3ps (3723)
United States
August 13, 2008 4:54pm CST
Our town has a trash facility where you can take things to be recycled for free - assuming you are the correct height. I went down there with a car full of cardboard boxes. The man told me "You could put in in the recycling bin for free, or pay to dump it for $6.00. You'll probably have to put it in the dump because you are too short to reach the recycling bins." (I am four foot eleven inches). I said, "Could I pay you the $6.00 to throw it in the recycling bin?" No go - so you can't recycle in my town if you are short! GRRR!!!
3 responses
@TheCarter (369)
• United States
13 Aug 08
Nobody told you to be so short! Its your own fault, deal with it a pay the trash fee! --You Local Recycling Buddy
@foxyfire33 (10005)
• United States
13 Aug 08
Ugh! That is awful! There has got to be a department to complain to. I thought places had to be handicap accessible...not that you are but if you can't reach then a person in a wheelchair can't either. Sounds like it's just an easy way for them to make money. They tell anyone under a certain height that they are too short to reach so they can collect the $6...and since the majority are going to be women, they don't expect anyone to make a fuss about it.
@phisha84 (286)
• United States
13 Aug 08
LOL I'm sorry....I'm 5'1 i'm too short to reach the two liter sodas at my grocery store....yeah they oughtta realize not everyone is tall....what about people in wheelchairs? How do they throw stuff away, unforunately i will be in a wheelchair someday so yeah am I gonna have to have someone that works there walk around just to get my stuff? I would put a step stool in the back of your car....thats what i do.
