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Obviously No Consideration

It’s 6:35 p.m. this Saturday evening and my mother and I just got home from perhaps the most ill-planned event we have ever ended up not attending. We had been eagerly looking forward to seeing an owl presentation at Parmalee Farm. What we were not looking forward to was the inadequate parking and having the event presented outside here at the end of October.

There was obviously no consideration for elderly or physically impaired people who would want to attend this program. In all fairness, handicapped parking was available—but it was least two-tenths of a mile from where the presentation was to be held. Of course, that’s before the lot filled up and the overflow had to go find parking at the middle school! Some very pleasant parking attendants did allow me to drive up to the place to save my mother the long walk, but after discovering we would be standing in an open pavilion for more than an hour at least, we decided that our best move was to leave and return home.

Now about that middle school. We have this multi-million dollar construction adjacent to Parmalee with beautiful facilities that could have easily accommodated both able-bodied and physically restricted people in heated comfort. Whatever genius decided to have the presentation in mid-autumn at night outside in the first place should never be put in charge of setting up any future program. He or she should, however, spend his or her immediate time apologizing to everyone who got stiffed this evening because of his or her incompetence.

I guess all we old people in this town are good for is to pay taxes, right?

Edward W. Wood

Killiingworth