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To: Gauguin who wrote (51975)	6/8/2000 4:31:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 71178

If it were not illegal, dangerous, and ridiculous, I would burn the sucker down. I see a "start-over," a do-over, as being the length to which this building needs its butt kicked. For the public good and future safety. (I recommend blindfolding the architect inside, symbolically.) I really want to punch him before he gets burned up though. Hmmm.... this is sounding remarkably familiar... Could have been me when I had to take my dad back and forth for chemo and other procedures a year and some odd ago.... As if the whole ordeal of dealing with terminal illness wasn't enough... it seemed that some Pointy-head architect who probably got paid millions of our collective tax dollars... had somewhat maliciously, created the ultimate obstacle course through which to push a wheelchair encumbered by a very ill person with an oxygen tank dragging along in tow. Some part of me wants to suppose that the Pointy-heads don't have any concept of what it's like to try to negotiate any form of movement with a very sick person... And some part of me also tries to believe that the Pointy-heads are under the mistaken impression that there are actually Doormen at hospitals who are waiting to spring into action to help you to get a wheelchair laden with a very sick person through 6 inches of grey slush and in through some chaotic series of electronically-activated doors that seem more appropriate for a Space Station than a hospital entrance....and then through a maze of poorly marked corridors... But no... I don't think that the Pointy-heads even thought that far ahead... because, in fact, hospitals are designed in Ivory Towers... out of little bits of coated-white cardstock...with exacto knives and spray-adhesive.... They aren't for the Real World... so don't come running back to them with tales of woe about how this-and-that doesn't work in a Real Life situation... No...don't do that... So, what to do...? On one particular "visit" I almost put the "kick-a -garbage-can-over-and-kick-garbage-all-over-the-place" plan of action into effect,...but then I took a real look around at all of the sad-faced people working, or being treated in the cancer center... and realized that it would just make things even worse for everyone... so instead, I stood somewhere and quietly waited for the mood to pass... But yeah, letters don't cut it... There's got to be a better way of handling this....