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  • #1

    Make way! Coming through!

    Inspired by the bus vs Fiero thread.

    As many of you know, I need to use a mobility scooter, wheelchair, or walker. Usually the scooter. The scooter, despite travelling slowly (less than 10km/h max speed), doesn't stop instantly. It also has a significant turning circle.

    People must want to get run into!

    People - especially in a shopping mall - are constantly walking out right in front of me, stopping right in front of me, walking into the space I am actively trying to turn into, and otherwise making it damn near impossible for me to avoid them.

    Little children, I can understand. They're too young to understand physics, and if I see one ahead of me, I make a point of going very slowly. This doesn't help if they appear from nowhere, but it does cut down on the near-misses.

    But grown adults? Please!

    Quite aside from the sheer physics of it, people in scooters are, almost by definition, disabled somehow. This can include reflex disorders, people!

    *sigh*

    I guess most folks never have to think about this stuff. I really wish I had that luxury.
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    How about the people who pay no attention to the guy that is pushing an electric cart that weighs 500 kg, loaded with 1200 kg of milk? Honestly, they had something that weighed as much as a car in the middle of the store coming at them, and they didn't even flinch!

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    • #3
      They're the same jerks that cut off buses and trucks and then are surprised when their cars are turned into pancakes. Well, they're briefly surprised, until their brains become the butter on the pancake.
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      • #4
        I feel your pain. Though not a scooter, I CAN NOT STAND people who dart in front of me while Im pushing a stroller or a shopping cart. And seriously, I bump your legs, it is your fault and no amount of evil eye is going to make it different. Also, they get the evil eye right back. (and Ive got a mean eye, just ask my husband. lol.).

        Jackasses.

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        • #5
          A lot of members on this board complain about the idiots who assume one measley little human can stop a rolling line of 50 carts on a dime. Sorry, but no. Please please look both ways before moving your car.

          And your scooters, for that matter. Can't tell you how many times scooters suddenly shoot backwards as I'm walking behind them. The rider was at full stop. Didn't look at surroundings including the ever-sensible behind them. And suddenly jumps into reverse anyway. Less than 10 mi/hr is still way too fast for me to effectively jump out of the way. And the rider always seems very surprised as though I magically appeared. Even happened while I was waiting in the checkout line and had been standing behind the scooter for a few minutes. And yes, I realize these numbskulls are the minority, but sheesh.

          Seshat, part of the problem isn't just stupidity. These EWs assume they are more important so how dare you expect them to pause or move slightly out of the way. Perhaps you could show them what utter peasants they are. Don a crown and cape. Then start shouting "Make way for the Queen". I know, I'm a little silly tonight.
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          • #6
            More than once I've seen idiot SCs walk in front of an employee pushing a cartful of merchandise, or a pallet jack, or even driving a forklift! Sorry, Your Royal SCness, even your massive ego is not enough to overcome the laws of physics. Get out of the ing way!
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            • #7
              It may be very insensitive of me, but I hope you laugh. This reminds me of a strip from the online comic Something Positive, one of the characters is in a wheelchair because she was in a terrible accident as a teen. She decides to go to the mall during the holiday season and one of her friends asks how she can manuever in her chair with all those people around. The final panel shows her wheeling threw the mall with a cattle-plow; much like the ones on the front of trains.
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              • #8
                And on that note...

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QenN5DVuLtw

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn7Yvy4Vibk

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4pJwcE7JI

                Pure awesomeness.

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