Handicap Bathrooms

Well here I am, Edwyn Prose back once again with something to write about and maybe rant about some, although I probably won't be going too crazy on this. I'm going to talk a little about handicap bathrooms, mainly because I have a nephew with disabilities and its on his behalf that I want to level some of my trademark ire at some of the public buildings we've visited lately.

Ok, don't squirm in your chair, I'm not about to go naming and shaming. There's no mileage in that in this case, but I just want to raise awareness of this.

Ok, its not always the lack of handicap facilities in public buildings that has prompted this, but on some the occasions we've visited places, its the fact that they were closed off when we visited! Now, I understand that bathrooms need to be cleaned and sometimes they need to be maintained and that would require closing the facility. But to have them closed while a public building is open to the public should not happen!

Fair enough if a mess gets made and it needs to be cleaned up, sure you can close the facility for the several minutes it takes to clean it up. But then you're supposed to open it again! We've been caught on a number of occasions where the facility was "closed for cleaning" and when we came back 20 minutes later it was still closed. We checked and there was no one working in there, so what the hell was it closed for?

The explanation I was given was that the cleaner must have forgotten to re-open it again after cleaning it. Well, that's really not good enough people.

A handicap facility, with its obvious need should never be left in that kind of state while a public building is open.

Ok, my point is put and that's all I'm going to say about it.

On this note, I will mentions something that is related in some way to this and that's my local hardware store that I had to visit the other day to get some handicap shower accessories for our own handicap bathroom. They excelled themselves in not only having the items I needed in stock, but for the grab rails that I purchased, they had a guy there come round and fit them for me that very same day and they didn't charge me a cent for doing it! I'm mighty impressed, so much so that I gave the guy a $50 tip and told him to buy the guys in the store a drink from me!

Hey, its nice to hear a happy ending from one of my posts!

Edwyn Prose

Mens Wigs

Hi all, Edwyn Prose is back in the driving seat for some more factual mayhem and grumpy old guy ranting! What have I got in store for you this time out? Well, its something that makes me laugh and at the same time makes me a little sad too. Its about men who are losing their hair who make the decision to cover it up by wearing a wig.

Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, cause lets face it, self esteem and self confidence are important things and if creating the illusion you still have that full head of hair makes you feel good, then do it!

My bone for contention is when you get these guys that go out and buy a wig at a garage buy sale, at least thats the way it looks! They get these hopelessly mis-matched hairpieces that are not even the same color as what's left of their own hair, or they get wavy ones when their real hair is straight! Then you gotta laugh at these guys. And feel sad at the same time. Mens wigs are meant to look like they're not wigs at all, but are your real hair!

Maybe they don't realize what they've done, or can't see the color mismatch! Or maybe they don't care! Who knows? Maybe they think they look great and all the women are gonna swoon over their great looks! Ha!

Hell, I'm getting on in years and my hair is white and pretty thin, but there's no way I'd go get something that made me look downright stupid, or maybe a little crazy! I may be a grumpy old guy, but I'm not a crazy one!

Edwyn Prose

Home Security Camera Systems

Well when it comes to the safety of your home and your family who live in there, I don't believe that you can take too many chances or be too vigilant and protective. Sure, you can rely on neighbors and such like to keep a watch on your place and you can reciprocate sort of like a neighborhood lookout scheme, but it still is not enough in my mind.

The more security measures you take out to protect your home and your family, the better, without it looking like you're trying to protect the crown jewels in the process! So you should have at the very least one of the best home security camera systems money can buy and couple that with some good quality outdoor lights. You can place movement sensor activated spotlights at strategic points around the perimeter of your property so that no area is left in darkness and if anything moves that shouldn't move at night, it'll trip one or more of the floodlights and reveal the intruder who will then be captured on camera and recorded on video, or even better DVR.

It also helps to have a dog or two, preferably big ones that will make a big noise if anyone tried to get into your property uninvited.

Well, that's my own personal view anyhow. Some folks may say I go a little overboard sometimes, but think on this:

If a thief were to be patrolling my street and scoping out the properties for easy pickings, which one is he going to choose? The house that lights up like the Las Vegas Strip and has two big dogs wanting to chew out his pants if he so much as goes near the place, or the house a couple doors down with no lights, plenty of shadows to lurk in and no damn dogs to alert the rest of the neighbors to come runnin' and hollerin' and maybe one or two waving guns about in the process!

I rest my case.

Edwyn Prose