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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Cindy Boyer wrote:
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Do
any of you have office cats? We are considering the adoption
of one, and wondered what are all the ramifications. Does one person
take
charge? Who pays the bills? Who does the feeding and scooping?
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