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  • You're not the ONLY disabled person in the world

    I saw a very unpleasant person in a wheelchair today who deserves to be mentioned on here.

    I was on the bus with a friend of mine. I don't know what's wrong with him, but he can't bend or straighten his legs/knees past a certain point. He needs a walker to walk with and he's probably all of 20 years old. He's very lanky, and he stutters. He's a wonderful guy beneath all that, but often you can't understand what he says, or he'll stutter so much he can't get past a word.

    We got on the bus, and for some reason, the rule on the bus this time was that people get on first, then the guy in the wheelchair gets off. (Not saying he's not a person, obviously)

    We ended up sitting across the aisle from the man in the wheelchair. He pulled away to go out. There was DEFINITELY plenty of room for him to go past. I mean, two wheelchairs could have gone past there, but my friend's foot was still in the aisle.

    W: Wheelchair
    HD: Highly Durable, High-Definition Hyena Dandy
    HDF: My Friend.

    W: Move your feet
    HD: *feet under the seat*
    HDF: Feet as far as he can get them*
    W: You too
    HDF: You can g-g-g-
    W: Your feet are in the way
    HD: There's plenty of room
    W: *ignors, glares at HDF* Move them
    HDF: I c-c-c-c... c-c-c-c... c-can't
    W: You can walk, can't you?
    HDF: Y-y-y-y
    W: Move your feet
    HD: His legs won't bend anymore.
    W: THen you bend them.
    HD: *glare* No
    HDF: *feet less than an inch back, clearly working* Th-th-th-there
    W: No respect *leaves*
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  • #2
    OMG. I'm having trouble formulating a response that's strong enough to convey my outrage for the way this jerk treated your friend and yet polite enough to be acceptable here. Considering what's acceptable here, you should have an idea just how disgusted I am at wheelchair guy's attitude. I'm not going to try to say what I would have done in that situation: it would probably break CS rules against promoting violence.

    Just today Panacea and I went to a store where we saw a woman with a handicapped tag parked across two handicapped spaces. Not because she needed them, mind you: there was the obligatory lined space between parking spots to allow for wheelchair access and all. This disabled EW just felt the need to park her car *just* crooked enough in the space to have her car taking up two of them. The woman didn't have a cane or a walker or anything, so she had absolutely no reason to take up the extra space.

    Maybe it's nothing to some people, but as a person who uses a walker I think I sort of expect that other people with mobility issues would be a little more. . . understanding.
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    • #3
      I dunno, man, one of the worst regulars to walk through the door at Kinko's was this nasty shit in a wheelchair. He was repellent. Not only was did he just have an awful personality, but he was a thief and a con man. Top that off with the fact that he habitually used his unfortunate physical condition to garner sympathy when he was trying to pull scams or steal, and you got a real fine specimen.

      The guy was a despicable turd.

      We kind of on some level think people that have some sort of issue like this are saints. Or, at the very least, not despicable turds. Truth is, they aren't any better or worse than anyone else. Some of them are saints, some of them are turds.

      I can't see this guy having even a shred of compassion for a fellow chair user. He just wasn't that kind of guy.

      Sounds like you encountered a turd. Sorry you and your friend had to endure that.

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      • #4
        There's assholes everywhere & sometimes they're in a wheelchair or on crutches or use a cane,it don't matter,they're assholes.
        "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you.This is the principal difference between a man and a dog"

        Mark Twain

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        • #5
          Just to clarify . . . not everyone who legally has a handicapped tag uses a wheelchair, walker, or cane. Some disabilities are not visible.

          Granted, the woman should not have taken up more than her allotted space, but she still may have been disabled.
          Last edited by Dave1982; 02-02-2011, 08:26 PM.

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          • #6
            Kinkoid and Freddy hit the nail on the head: just because you're disabled doesn't mean you're not an asshole.

            I hate people like that. They make people look like schmucks for complaining about inappropriate behavior, and create resentment that makes life harder for the vast majority of disabled folks who are regular joes and decent people.
            They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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            • #7
              I can never understand why people use their disability or some such things to be such assholes to everyone. My dad is labeled handicapped (although he doesn't need a wheelchair or walker etc to walk, he does have his leg in a brace and can not bend it very far.) and tries his hardest NOT to be a bother to anyone because of it. Something similar happened to us when we went to the store about 2 years after my father's accident. He had just started walking on his own again, and I was in a crotch high brace and crutches from my knee surgery. Mom wasn't too happy that both us went with her since we both were in pain, but we had been stuck in the house for awhile and needed to get out. While my mom went shopping, my dad followed behind in one of those motorized scooters they had with me bringing in the rear, crutching along at a pretty good pace (I'd been on crutches many times before this so I knew how to handle them). As we sat in one aisle, i was kind of sitting/hovering on the back of my dad's scooter seat to rest when another scooter started coming down the aisle. I warned mom and she moved the cart out of the way, leaving MORE than enough room for 2 scooters to go through. The woman stopped just before me and sat there.

              Grouchy Woman- GW

              GW: Move.
              ME: *looks around, trying to figure who she's talking to. realize she's talking to me* ma'am there is more than enough room for you pass.
              GW: Move your foot! it's in my way!
              ME: *my leg cannot bend. The brace prevents that and medically it would not have been a good idea* Ma'am I can't. *points at brace* My leg physically can not bend.
              GW: *she glares at me before continuing forward...RIGHT OVER MY FOOT!*
              I of course exclaim a few choice words which makes my mom turn around.
              M: What, what's wrong?
              ME: That fucking bitch just ran over my foot. (the vibrations of the scooter going over my foot shot pain into my just fixed knee. Anyone who has had knee surgery knows how painful it is, that extra vibration was like fire on top of fire) At this point I'm hopping on my good foot because I had almost lost balance.
              We didn't see her again before we left and the manager we told said he couldn't do anything and that we just had to deal with it.
              Just....*sigh*

              *note, not fratching here. Just the few bad apples are the ones I experienced and didn't like. I know that not all disabled people act like this, so please do not think that I think they do, if that makes sense. *
              Just because they serve you, doesn't mean they like you. And just because they smile and act polite doesn't mean they aren't planning to destroy you.

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              • #8
                What a fucking asshole.

                Double so for that stupid bitch who ran your foot over, Tithera.
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                • #9
                  Quoth Tithera View Post
                  (scooter bitch story)
                  I'm not supposed to promote violence, but let me just say that there are many uses for a crutch besides walking.
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                  • #10
                    Met an EW with Crutches (hereafter EWC) today at the university. I'm on an elevator with my walker. I get to the bottom floor, the doors open, and this wall on crutches is standing in the way. She stands there, staring at me, as I move towards her to get off the elevator. There's absolutely no way for me to get around her to get off the lift.

                    Me: Excuse me (hey, I've been lost in thought before, so I give her the benefit of the doubt. . . once).
                    EWC: *stares at me and doesn't move*
                    Me: I'm trying to get off here.
                    EWC: *continues to stare at me* Well?
                    Me: Please?
                    EWC: Move. I'm going up.
                    Me: *looking at the small elevator, the way the EWwC is using her crutches like flying buttresses, and my inflexible walker* Yeah. Not gonna happen until I'm off the elevator. So excuse me.
                    EWC: I'm on crutches, I need to get on the damn ele....

                    *This is when I turn into an unstoppable object. I was nice: I aimed for the crutch opposite the leg I could see was in a brace. And I didn't aim for her leg, though it was tempting.*

                    EWC: *some blargle blat about me that included lots of swearing before the door shut. The only thing that stuck with me was the part about how she's fusking crippled and how dare I make her move. I love the fact that my walker has four wheels; on smooth level ground I can really get moving on that thing. *

                    Jeez. Elevator etiquette. People get off and *then* new people get on.
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                    • #11
                      Quoth EvilEmpryss View Post
                      EWC: *some blargle blat about me that included lots of swearing before the door shut. The only thing that stuck with me was the part about how she's fusking crippled and how dare I make her move.
                      yes because I'm sure you have the walker simply because it's shiny, not because you, ya know, actually require it's use or anything...
                      Honestly.... the image of that in my head made me go "AWESOME!"..... and then I remembered I am terribly strange.-Red dazes

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                      • #12
                        Well, I *do* have flames on it.
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                        • #13
                          Oooh, a go-faster walker!

                          It's actually a (very subtle) form of discrimination to assume that just because someone's disabled, they're somehow "better" in other ways. Please, allow us the right to be turds and assholes!

                          Well. Accept that we're just like everyone else, anyway.
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                          1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
                          2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
                          3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
                          4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

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                          • #14
                            Quoth EvilEmpryss View Post
                            Well, I *do* have flames on it.
                            Quoth Seshat View Post
                            Oooh, a go-faster walker!
                            But is it painted red? Because, as we all know, Da Red Wunz Go Faster!
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                            • #15
                              It isn't. . . yet.

                              Once I get some planned down time where I know I won't need it (I can't really get by without it during the school term), I'm hoping to paint it. But once I do, I'm really gonna draw attention when I put my heelies on and start cruzin' 'round campus.
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