Wheelchair arrogance.

I can understand why he'd be angry. It's one thing to not have his chair arrive on time but then to only have a transport wheelchair available. I don't know how I'd feel about being forced to give up my independence due to their mistake. Some type of compensation might have made a difference.

(Nov 2, 2018 07:18 PM)confused2 Wrote: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45765767

Too proud to accept a ride in the wheelchair they had available.

Quote:Justin says the airport's failure to provide him with either a self-propelling wheelchair or a motorised buggy left him with only one viable option - to drag himself along the floor for hundreds of yards.

Any airport not located in the Outhouse and Zero-Sanitation habitation zones of the world surely has an insufficient in number fleet of mobility scooters on hand. That limited supply of them no doubt all being used at the time of this incident, though. Hypermarkets provide electric, motorized shopping carts. People who aren't necessarily even disabled but just overweight could be spotted at a Walmart using them, potentially hogging them away from the literal handicapped on an irregular basis.

Quote:In the course of our business we once dropped a man out of his wheelchair onto the pavement. Mrs C2 was screaming and I was thinking we could get the body out through the back door under cover of darkness. Turned out he was a wheelchair rugby player - we'd just done a bad tackle - he was also a gentleman and a scholar. Not our finest hour but he was clearly equally worried about the effect he was having on us as we were about the effect we had just had on him. Nice guy. Not your 'loon in a wheelchair' kind of guy.

I guess you get loons in wheelchairs in pretty much the same proportion as anywhere else.

Still no law passed yet in this era of micro-expertise, specialized credentials, and state paternalism that a bystander cannot help a disabled person unless they're an institution trained, licensed caregiver. Just one of those futile hopes of being penalty-protected from our own good Samaritanism. Or rather that occasional opportunistic scoundrel milking even their own later physiological misfortune for all its worth. (I mean, it's not like we'd really let a blazing house full of innocents burn for fear of the fines and litigation dispensed for not being qualified Fire & Rescue! )

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Do you know what happened to me awhile back? I went in to use the restroom. One stall was occupied but the handicap stall was empty. I don’t know about you but I get a little stage fright. I don't know how men do it. I could never pee standing next to some stranger. It even bothers me if someone starts pulling on the door and that’s exactly what some lady did. She then goes on to ask if I’m disabled. At that point, I just gave up and came out. I decided to wait for the other one but then I started getting a little pissed. So, I asked her if her disability somehow prevented her from waiting. She went on this big, loud tirade about how we’re not allowed to use handicap restrooms. I told her that they’re not like parking spaces. So, next time wait in line just like the rest of us.

 

SS Wrote:So, next time wait in line just like the rest of us.

Dunno about that one. I do see that the disabled parking spaces by the supermarket tend to have some of the newest and most expensive cars in the car park. 

I did once call out a girl in the street "Oi! You! Yes you - your dog has just crapped on the pavement."  like she was pretending not to notice.
"I'm sorry - I'm blind. - show me where it is and I'll clear it up.".
She had someone with her that melted away at the point of confrontation. The dog wasn't in a harness. She had the eyes of a person that does not see. I apologised.
Doesn't really make up for Oi! You! to a blind person.