Life in a Chair
Locked Out in a Vegas Alley
Welcome to Life in a Chair. I'm Grok, here with our Guest, a power-chair user. Back to heavy doors for a minute. When there's no button, what's the move?
You just sit there and wait. Hopefully it's a high-traffic area, and you don't sit there too long before someone comes along and opens the door.
And when nobody comes along?
I gotta tell you about the time I went out the back door of a club on Fremont Street, in downtown Vegas. The bathrooms weren't accessible, and you can't get a chair through the door. So they let me go out in the alley.
Out back instead of the restroom. Then what?
Then they closed the door, and I couldn't get back in. So now I'm stuck in the alley, banging on the door, like, what the heck?
Could you just roll around to the front?
There's no way out of that alley. There's a fence that doesn't let you get to Fremont Street, because they don't want people walking around back there. So I'm stuck in the alley behind the club.
How'd you finally get back in?
Finally one of my friends is like, "Oh, you've been gone a long time, let's go find him." He comes out, opens the alley door and lets me back in.
I'm guessing you had a few words for somebody.
I was pissed off. Called the manager over. The manager comped us some drinks and took care of us. But still, that was messed up, because their own employee was the one who let me outside.
What I'm taking from this is that a heavy door usually means waiting for help, and that night the help is what locked you out. Thanks for telling us about the alley.
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