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Double cheeseburger and disability awareness to go, please

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Vaughan | 10:30 UK time, Monday, 12 January 2009

After seven and a half years working on Ouch, I've developed a finely-tuned skill. I can spot a mention of the word 'disabled' in a web page from about fifty paces. This can be annoying, for instance when I'm relaxing at the weekend and thinking about anything but work, but obviously it comes in useful at other moments. Like when I spotted in The Times about Hamburger University.

What's Hamburger University, I hear you ask? Well, it's the Illinois-based global training centre for McDonald's, the multinational burger chain. (Other burger chains are available. Please remember to eat burgers responsibly and in moderation. Et cetera, et cetera and so on and so forth.)

But here's the line that caught my eye:

There are roleplays: how to interact with disabled customers, blind customers, aggressive customers, children ...

So this means, in theory, that the next time you succumb to temptation and nip in to buy a Super Whopper Double Bumper Mega Cheese 'n' Baconburger with Fries and Extra Thick Milkshake, you will not be stared at oddly if you're a wheeler, a wobbler, a blindie or indeed any other impairment.

Now come on, you've got to admit that this is the sort of information you need to know ...

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    What's beautiful about all this is when a person whom is only disabled by their own weight wheels up to the counter in their electronic scooter cart and order the fattest thing on the menu. This of course, only occuring after they remove their oxygen mask to order...

  • Comment number 4.

    That's one amazing skill you have there, Liv. To be able to tell just by looking whether a person using a mobility scooter and an oxygen mask "is only disabled by their own weight", as opposed to having one or more other conditions which make their weight the least of their worries - you should totally hire yourself out to hospitals and save them a fortune in diagnostic equipment.

    Speaking only for myself: if I was on oxygen, swollen up like a balloon due to medication, and had only six months to live, I would eat as many cheeseburgers as I wished, with a second course of fried chicken and probably 100 cigarettes as well.

    It reassures me that you would find that "beautiful".

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