What is Your Pet Peeve?

[Hear Again]

Same! The abstracts are always so enticing.

i know!

oh, and when you *do* pay for an article, that's when you realize it wasn't worth the money because it was too short in length, didn't cover the material/topic you thought it did or didn't cover it as thoroughly as you would have liked.

 

[Sosie]

<jawdrop> They have braille menus? I've never gone to a restaurant that had braille menus before! Where is this place?

Yes, they do. Outback Steakhouse provide Braille and Large Print menus but not just one restaurant, like, Ruby Tuesday, Applebee's, Olive Garden, Bone Fish Grill, Red Lobster, Bob Evans, Cracker Barrel and so on, for example.. You can check out the link - Restaurants - Braille Menus.
I thought Washington, D.C. should provide Braille and Large Print menus in your area because there are a lot of deafblind community there.

 

[Hear Again]

Yes, they do. Outback Steakhouse provide Braille and Large Print menus but not just one restaurant, like, Ruby Tuesday, Applebee's, Olive Garden, Bone Fish Grill, Red Lobster, Bob Evans, Cracker Barrel and so on, for example.. You can check out the link - Restaurants - Braille Menus.
I thought Washington, D.C. should provide Braille and Large Print menus in your area because there are a lot of deafblind community there.

this website is awesome! thanks so much, sosie! as usual, you're a wonderful resource for the blind and deafblind here on ad! <very happy>

 

[Sosie]

I'm sorry to hear that, Sosie. <frown> I can totally understand. I have an allergic reaction to smoke too... it induces migraines for me.

By the way, don't move to Russia. Or a lot of other European countries for that matter. When I lived in Russia, the people I lived with smoked, so I would go hide in my bedroom and open the window for some fresh air. But then there would be more smoke! I thought, how is there smoke coming from outside? Turned out my neighbor would literally smoke into my bedroom window. (The way the building is set up your neighbor's window is literally feet from yours.)

No escape!

Thanks, Nika... Sorry to hear that you are allergic to smoke, including your migraines, too. It's no fun... and

Same here. When I open all the windows for some fresh air during spring. summer and fall but it makes worse because I can smell my next-door neighbor's smokes.. That's my biggest peeve.

 

[Nika]

You can check out the link - Restaurants - Braille Menus.
I thought Washington, D.C. should provide Braille and Large Print menus in your area because there are a lot of deafblind community there.

Thanks so much for the link! I guess a lot of the chains and fast food places have braille menus. The only time I ever eat out is with my parents, who like to pick fancy places, and those places pretty much never have accommodations of any kind. Guess that explains it.

 

[Nika]

i know!

oh, and when you *do* pay for an article, that's when you realize it wasn't worth the money because it was too short in length, didn't cover the material/topic you thought it did or didn't cover it as thoroughly as you would have liked.

Tell me about it. That's why I usually try to go through my university website. Another thing that peeves me is when I finally get to the article and my screen reader won't recognize the format. Enter window. HTML content.

 

[Sosie]

this website is awesome! thanks so much, sosie! as usual, you're a wonderful resource for the blind and deafblind here on ad! <very happy>

You are welcome!
Thanks...

 

[Bottesini]

Thanks so much for the link! I guess a lot of the chains and fast food places have braille menus. The only time I ever eat out is with my parents, who like to pick fancy places, and those places pretty much never have accommodations of any kind. Guess that explains it.

Does it occur to you that you should be peeved at your parents that you did not know Burger King, Wendy's, etc have braille menus?

No one should be dependent, on the goodwill of others, and that is how they keep you if they don't let you in on the secret of readily available braille menus.

And yes fancy restaurants have braille menus too.

 

[Sosie]

Thanks so much for the link! I guess a lot of the chains and fast food places have braille menus. The only time I ever eat out is with my parents, who like to pick fancy places, and those places pretty much never have accommodations of any kind. Guess that explains it.

You are welcome! Yes, they do have braille menus here but I DO hope they have braille menus in your area.. I found an interesting info about Blind World to talk about one fancy restaurant in Japan. Here's the link: Blind World Magazine - Requested Article. .

 

[shel90]

That drives me nuts. When I'm communicating with my girlfriend, I sign to her and she uses voice with me. People say I must be the deaf one and she must be the blind one cause I'm signing and she's speaking. They don't get that I'm signing for her because she's Deaf and she's using voice for me because I'm blind. And then they use "but you're signing" as a reason for why I can't be blind, and "but you're talking" as a reason for why she can't be deaf.

Wow! That puts a new perspective on how people view my hubby and I. I have gone thru that with my hubby and I could never understand why but since u have explained it, now I get why people think I am the hearing one and he is the deaf one. It has always been something puzzling to me.

 

[Nika]

Does it occur to you that you should be peeved at your parents that you did not know Burger King, Wendy's, etc have braille menus?

I'm more peeved at the fact my parents never believed me when I told them I'm blind.

And yes fancy restaurants have braille menus too.

I'm really glad to hear that. The few times I've eaten out with friends at nice places and asked for a braille menu, they said they didn't have one. I have taken to suggesting that they have braille and large print menus, and that they also have braille signage, especially on the bathroom doors. (This one drives me nuts cause the doors are usually side to side or adjacent to each other so there's really no telling which is men's and which is women's.)

 

[Bottesini]

I'm more peeved at the fact my parents never believed me when I told them I'm blind.

I'm really glad to hear that. The few times I've eaten out with friends at nice places and asked for a braille menu, they said they didn't have one. I have taken to suggesting that they have braille and large print menus, and that they also have braille signage, especially on the bathroom doors. (This one drives me nuts cause the doors are usually side to side or adjacent to each other so there's really no telling which is men's and which is women's.)

Are you kidding?

 

[Nika]

Leads me to another pet peeve...
People that only believe what they want to believe.

 

[Nika]

Are you kidding?

Dead serious. Denial is a powerful tool.

 

[Mrs Bucket]

Dead serious. Denial is a powerful tool.

Yup, you're right about that.

My parents still believe that I can see one day if I eat more carrots, green vegetables, bread crusts and vitamins. :roll:

They also cling to some false hope that my blindness is a fluke from some head cold. Oh boy.

 

[Nika]

Yup, you're right about that.

My parents still believe that I can see one day if I eat more carrots, green vegetables, bread crusts and vitamins. :roll:

They also cling to some false hope that my blindness is a fluke from some head cold. Oh boy.

My parents are the exact same way.

My blindness is one of many things on a long list that they deny, and they're like that about it all. Sorry to hear your parents suck as much as mine, Mrs. Bucket.

That's what websites like AllDeaf are for!

 

[Hear Again]

Leads me to another pet peeve...
People that only believe what they want to believe.

i can relate to this. when i was first diagnosed as bipolar, my sister denied i had the illness because it was caused by stress (and sensory deprivation due to the loss of my residual hearing). now that she has seen me manic for several weeks and rapid cycling to the point where i bite her head off if she asks me the wrong question one minute (which i'm not proud of) and i'm extremely happy the next, she believes my diagnosis.

oh, i almost forgot. she also thinks i hear perfectly with my ci's. that's another pet peeve of mine: people who think ci's give you perfect hearing.

 

[Hear Again]

Tell me about it. That's why I usually try to go through my university website. Another thing that peeves me is when I finally get to the article and my screen reader won't recognize the format. Enter window. HTML content.

i have that problem with my screen reader too, so now i also do the same by looking up journals on my university's library website.

 

[sequoias]

Judgemental people

People with no heart (selfish and unfriendly)

Those who drive at unsafe during bad weather

 

[Nika]

when i was first diagnosed as bipolar, my sister denied i had the illness because it was caused by stress (and sensory deprivation due to the loss of my residual hearing).

Hear Again: I can totally relate to you. My family denied my PTSD for years. Now they oscillate between believing and denying me, and when they believe me, they think it's self-induced, despite the obvious name--Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, as in the stress disorder that occurs after trauma. I'm glad to see your sister is starting to vaguely understand.