I started to let this pass by, but my grant writing can wait 5 minutes more.

As an allergy sufferer it irritates me (pun intended) to go into some 
store or office and see cats, cat hairs, etc. etc. and know that I can 
either just turn and leave or have to take extra precautions just to 
avoid having my eyes water, itch and puff up. A local hardware store has 
cats in the store, and in spite of liking the store and trying to shop 
there whenever I can, instead of the local Wal-Mart, it is annoys me 
every time I go in, to have to remember not to touch any surfaces the 
cats are likely to have touched, not to put my hands anywhere near my 
face, and then have to go immediately somewhere to wash my hands before 
I can do anything else.

Any while I'm pointing out things businesses do unthinking of what their 
actions may cause to those of us with allergies, let my point out the 
one that I find the most annoying and widespread, the Airwick type of 
perfume coverups. I have encountered them in antique stores, food 
places, gift shops on vacation, and even in my own museum building when 
a new cleaning crew decided that rather than clean the men's room they 
would put up one of those.

When someone with sinus problems hits a small, closed room that one of 
these Airwick type perfumes has been in, it can only take a few seconds 
to set off a terrible sinus headache and ruin someone's whole day. 

I have learned to keep an eye out ahead for the candle & perfume 
sections to avoid - but cats and Airwicks should be in your home not in 
a public place of any kind.

Chris Taylor
Executive Director
Atchison County Historical Society
P.O. Box 201
200 S. 10th Street, Santa Fe Depot
Atchison, KS 66002
913-367-6238
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www.atchisonhistory.org



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