I had to use incredible restraint not to title this post something like “Hotel acts crappy.” Even though it’s total potty humor, it’s true.
It seems that a paraplegic businessman checked into a hotel and his colostomy bag broke during the night, spewing waste all over the bed. An accident. He paid the damages for clean-up. The hotel apparently banned the guest for life – specifically because of the soiled linens.
Okay, I’m sorry but this is just…crappy. (You don’t even have to excuse that pun. I know it’s bad.) Having two dear friends from high school who are quadraplegics, I have no doubt that this sort of thing happens and am sure they would be as mortified as this guy must have been.
Perhaps this hotel doesn’t realize that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is an anti-discrimination law? Hello?
Can you imagine the outcry if the hotel had tried to ban the guy because he was Hispanic? Or male? Or represented any of the other protected classes? Sheesh.
ADA advocates emphasize a “person first” way of thinking – that is “a person with a disability” as opposed to “disabled person” (so technically I should have said, “a person with paraplegia” but that sounded weird). What if – here’s a crazy idea – we just focus on a “person first” mentality for all people?
Be safe.
Thanks for sharing this story. It’s deplorable that this can happen, really unenlightened behavior.
Where is the common sense at this hotel? Are they really willing to take it to court? I can’t imagine anyone thinking they were in the right when the guy even PAID to rectify the situation (which he shouldn’t necessarily have had to pay that much anyways).
Bizarre.
Midori
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Wow! I know these things happen all the time, but it still don’t soften the blow when I read stories like this.
I’m blind and have been a quadriplegic since 2004. Although I, like many others don’t have a colostomy bag I know the poor guy must have been extremely embarrassed about the whole situation to begin with. I also agree with the comment above mine in that he shouldn’t have had to pay, but it was great that he did so the “problem” should have been considered “fixed” and everyone should have moved on!
Does this hotel ban kids (or anyone for that matter) for life if they wet the bed? How about if someone is not feeling well and are sick in bed? I bet they don’t ban the people who go out and drink all night and come back and make a mess when they are sick all over the room.
Hopefully said hotel reads some of these entries and un-bans him. I’d also like to know which hotel (or hotel chain) it was as I’m a frequent traveler and will make it a point of never using them again.