I am handicapped -- this morning Spires Restaurant in Torrance , CA, discriminated against me.

[liberalhistorian]

83. Why should the person with an allergy

have to be the one to automatically move? Their disability and comfort is, and should be, just as important as those who use service dogs to assist with their disability. My husband is allergic to both cats and dogs and I've seen firsthand just how debilitating and discomfiting such allergies are and can be.

And before anyone jumps on my case, I also have a hearing impairment and wear hearing aids (although I don't use a service dog) and I have friends who must use service dogs for their disabilities. And I agree that this manager was an idiot for his choice of words and his manner; fortunately, I rarely encounter that kind of attitude in most public establishments anymore when out and about with friends with service dogs, most places are very accomodating. It didn't used to be that way; I was in my mid-twenties when the ADA was first signed and began to be enacted and I well remember how resentful and resistant the vast majority of places were at first.