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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.