I volunteer one afternoon a week at a charity shop doing normal stuff that a person who works in a shop does - I tidy up stock on the shop floor, I work in the stock room pricing things and I work behind the till (I still haven't gotten the hang of the money yet!). I always end up bumping into people who I know - last week I bumped in one of my neighbours!
They almost didn't allow me to work at the charity shop because once whilst I was there I had a fall and the next day they called me and Mum in for a chat and they said that maybe it would be best if I didn't work there any more. Luckily for me and unluckily for them, I studied The Equality Act and The Disability Discrimination Act three times whilst I was at college and it is actually against the law to fire someone because of a disability and it's against the law to discriminate against someone with a disability, We spoke to the regional manager and six months later, I am still working at the charity shop!
Today, we had two scooters and a mini tricycle come in and we planned on having a race back home! Strangely enough, it didn't happen! But we felt that it was important to test the scooters so we rode them through the shop floor to check that they worked!
It's always worth trying everything out!
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