September 19, 2011
3. Newblog2011: 09/19/11 The New York Times: Message to them re: bed assignment at the Boston Public Health Commission shelter in Quincy
This was a blog page that I first published on my WordPress blog, "ireallyprotest," yesterday, September 18, 2011. I didn't have time to publish it here, which was where I had intended to publish it.
September 18, 2011
Last night (September 17, 2011), I left a voicemail at the New York Times reader comment line, telling them how I’d been assigned a bed for the night. I said that I’d asked for the bottom bed of bunk #59 at the Boston Public Health Commission shelter in Quincy, which was the same bed that I’d asked for the night before. The top bunk of that bed is, as many of the top bunks are, only a few inches away from the top bunk of the bed next to it. I really think it’s a health hazard for everyone who stays at the BPHC shelters that so many of the beds are as close together as they are. The mattress on the bottom bunk of bed #59 had looked less destroyed than some of the others on other beds were.
Last night, I was told by the shelter staffperson whom I’d asked “You can’t ask for a specific bed.” I was then assigned bed #55, which wasn’t a bunk but a single bed.
The person who was in line before me was given bed #54.
I also said in my voicemail for the New York Times that I can’t spend time worrying about or explaining the numbers of the beds that I get assigned to at any shelter. I had only started talking about the beds at that shelter in the first place because the mattresses are in very bad condition, and then I went on to talk about having been abused, because I thought that was an important thing to mention, to illustrate the unfair and vicious nature of the ways in which I’ve been abused.
However, I don’t have any control over the bed numbers that I get assigned. Whether or not a guest at the shelter can request a specific bed seems to depend on the staffperson, though; before the past few days, I had heard staffpeople say, to other residents who were complaining about their beds “But you didn’t ask for the one you wanted.”
Copyright L. Kochman, September 18, 2011 @ 5:40 p.m.
Copyright on Weebly, L. Kochman, September 19, 2011 @ 9:24 a.m.
3. Newblog2011: 09/19/11 The New York Times: Message to them re: bed assignment at the Boston Public Health Commission shelter in Quincy
This was a blog page that I first published on my WordPress blog, "ireallyprotest," yesterday, September 18, 2011. I didn't have time to publish it here, which was where I had intended to publish it.
September 18, 2011
Last night (September 17, 2011), I left a voicemail at the New York Times reader comment line, telling them how I’d been assigned a bed for the night. I said that I’d asked for the bottom bed of bunk #59 at the Boston Public Health Commission shelter in Quincy, which was the same bed that I’d asked for the night before. The top bunk of that bed is, as many of the top bunks are, only a few inches away from the top bunk of the bed next to it. I really think it’s a health hazard for everyone who stays at the BPHC shelters that so many of the beds are as close together as they are. The mattress on the bottom bunk of bed #59 had looked less destroyed than some of the others on other beds were.
Last night, I was told by the shelter staffperson whom I’d asked “You can’t ask for a specific bed.” I was then assigned bed #55, which wasn’t a bunk but a single bed.
The person who was in line before me was given bed #54.
I also said in my voicemail for the New York Times that I can’t spend time worrying about or explaining the numbers of the beds that I get assigned to at any shelter. I had only started talking about the beds at that shelter in the first place because the mattresses are in very bad condition, and then I went on to talk about having been abused, because I thought that was an important thing to mention, to illustrate the unfair and vicious nature of the ways in which I’ve been abused.
However, I don’t have any control over the bed numbers that I get assigned. Whether or not a guest at the shelter can request a specific bed seems to depend on the staffperson, though; before the past few days, I had heard staffpeople say, to other residents who were complaining about their beds “But you didn’t ask for the one you wanted.”
Copyright L. Kochman, September 18, 2011 @ 5:40 p.m.
Copyright on Weebly, L. Kochman, September 19, 2011 @ 9:24 a.m.