Saturday, 26 March 2022

Awareness

Before the present unpleasantness I would enable Ferretfingers to attend classes in art, craft, gardening or flower arranging with the Adult Learning Alliance.
In early 2019 we managed to get into two classes, both on a Tuesday.
From Facebook archives
26 March 2019 at 16:11
Hats off to Tesco, Norham Rd North Shields.
Ferretfingers and I go in there Tuesday lunchtimes between Adult Learning Alliance classes to buy his telly magazines and any half price/bogoffs/best befores we can find.   
A few weeks ago the piped music drove him, and me, into despair.   
I complained about it to the ladies at the self-service tills (he loves using them so I allow it even though it goes against the grain).   
Anyway…
Today there was no music.  
On the way out I mentioned how nice it was for us to the security guard and he said 
"We noticed that, for some reason, we get a lot of learning disabled people in on a Tuesday morning, so we're turning the music off to make it nicer for them."
No great fuss, no self-congratulatory Autism Hour hype; just observant, caring and considerate staff and management.   
Which is how it should be but so seldom is.

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