Dear Editor,
I am writing today to express my feelings on small town businesses. I work for Blue Heron Support Services Association. Today Tuesday, December 10th we go downtown to do some errands for a lady I support. As we shop locally all the time we stop by to make some purchases at one of our local stores. As we are shopping … Mother Nature calls … so off I run to a clerk telling the lady I know you don’t have a public washroom but this is an emergency, please can we use your facilities. No! replied the clerk, this is where we keep our money … go to the Mall.
I didn’t have time to explain, so out the building we go and head to another business on that street, well supported by myself . . . and same reply, No! They were sending me back to a store I just came from, was their solution. Keep in mind these are just employees keeping to the rules. Down to the bakery I head in hopes to find a bathroom, knowing full well there is no public bathroom, but I am very desperate … I ask if they could possibly let this lady use their bathroom and Yes! is the reply … I thank you very much Dennis and staff for understanding our situation. We do not misuse rules but sometimes there is that rule that may have to be bent. Once again, thank you Barrhead Bakery for coming to the rescue, it was greatly appreciated.
Yours truly,
Darlene Slepanki
