[Sca-cooks] I quit

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Heh, heh. You should have been there the time that my blind buddy Glenn
(aka 'yo! blind baby!) was introduced to grass bondage by a house brother.
He had woven a braided grass corselet on a nubile maiden, and was showing
off his prowess. (BTW, the corselet could not be removed - only cut off)
    When he complained that he couldn't see it, Lars (the perp) brought her
over for a tactile examination. Y'know, people who are blind have NO idea
what expressions are crossing their faces . . .

    Sieggy

----- Original Message -----

> I have a funny story about accommodating disabled people at events,
> which I hope will entertain and not offend.
>
> Just recently, I attended an event full of classes in our Barony.  A
> friend came up to me and said "There's a newcomer who'd like to attend
> your Elizabethan cookery class, but she's blind. I just wanted to let
> you know in advance so you could make any allowances you need to."
>
> So there wasn't much I had to do to make allowances for this person...
> just described things that I had pictures of, and gave her a URL where
> she could get the information on the handouts using her blind-friendly
> web browser.  But after the class, she asked if she could "see" what I
> was wearing, since she was interested in all the different costumes at
> the event.
>
> So I went over to her, and she started to run her hands over my costume.
> Since I was spending most of the day in the kitchen either teaching or
> organising the partial-potluck feast, I was wearing a Flemish
> market-girl outfit.  She felt the layers of skirts, the lacing up the
> front of the bodice, and then you should have seen the look of surprise
> on her face when she reached a little higher and said "Oh! It's rather
> low-cut, isn't it!?!"  (It was a standard 16th century square necked
> smock and kirtle, but I had no partlet on.)
>
> Now, I don't know how much more accommodating I could have been to this
> disabled lady than to let her, uh, "see" my costume in all its glory.
> Don't tell me that wasn't beyond the call of duty :P
>
> Yours,
>
> Katherine
>
>
> --
> Lady Katherine Rowberd (mka Kirrily "Skud" Robert)
> katherine at infotrope.net  http://infotrope.net/sca/
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