This community room is used as meeting space by various groups.
Collectively, any people from around the community attend these groups'
meetings there. A meeting in a senior residence hall is as normal as one
in a church hall or a school auditorium.
I don't think the presence of senior citizens at a public meeting is a
fit subject for ridicule. Contemptuous, dismissive jokes about their
health, etc. aren't funny. More importantly, they don't invalidate the
meeting. Public meetings should make it easier, not harder, for seniors
with activity limitations to attend.
Community members who insist on old-folk-free venues, and who are easily
frightened by security officers, probably should steer clear of this
venue. Most people find it's a convenient, well-equipped meeting space.
-- Tony West
Glenn moyer wrote:
You might not know how funny this is! At 8AM, Penn Praxis holds these "regular forums" at the old folks home. Nurses wheel down their clients for donuts. As Praxis and Tom do the blah-blah, the folks take naps in their wheel chairs and the nurses get to go out for a smoke. Once Praxis shuts up, the folks get to socialize a bit before they're wheeled away.
(I made a mad dash for the door because the Penn cop was giving me the eye
after I called Tom's drawings deceptive. They had that drawing where the teeny
weeny 10 story building was hiding behind the gigantic 3 story historic
building.)
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