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you know--I have my own scooter (electric cart) that i take everywhere--shopping, banks, etc. I cannot drive due to medical issues. I *can* walk--not well, but i CAN, for short distances.
On the odd occasion that I am out with someone else who drove us and i do not have my scooter, if one isn't available in the store ~gasp~ i *walk* with the aid of a REGULAR cart, i just hang on to it for dear life and walk very slowly.
What chaps me, is when I have the regular cart, in the course of our shopping, I see someone's freaking KIDS riding the cart and playing with it, whilst mommy and daddy (usually mommy) does the shopping. And God FORBID you ask their little darlings to please allow you to have the cart! (I didn't ask, the male friend I was with did) We had quickly decided to only pick up a few absolutely necessary things since he knows I can't walk well and therefore the big shopping trip we'd expected to do was not going to happen. Momma threw an absolute FIT over her perfectly fit, entitled offspring being asked to give the cart to someone that needed it. "THEY got to it first, b!tch and theys keepin' it! It's here for ANY customers of the store so you get yo lazy a$$ on outta here and leave mah babies ALONE!" (said 'babies' were probably 8 and 10 and had, quite obligingly on my friend's request, gotten off the cart until their mother's voice froze them in their tracks)
We got what I could not live without (staples like TP, girlstuff and a few groceries) and checked out then I sat while he went to get the car as I was now wiped out and literally couldn't go any further with two numb legs. My friend also requested a store manager to complain and got a small shrug and "there's not a lot we can do. Although they are there for our disabled or handicapped patrons, we cannot ask what type of disability someone has. But children are NOT allowed to use it as a toy"--and then went to find EW momma.
I just looked at my friend and said "see, hon? THIS is why I like to bring my own. Besides, I know exactly how my scooter moves, reacts and the radius of turns, etc. Although, I *have* had one customer stop and ask me to please reliquish it so that his wife could use it. (i was at checkout) I looked at my pretty, bright red cart with the USMC, proud mom and handicapped Vet stickers on it and explain to him that this isn't a store cart, i OWN this one.
On the odd occasion that I am out with someone else who drove us and i do not have my scooter, if one isn't available in the store ~gasp~ i *walk* with the aid of a REGULAR cart, i just hang on to it for dear life and walk very slowly.
What chaps me, is when I have the regular cart, in the course of our shopping, I see someone's freaking KIDS riding the cart and playing with it, whilst mommy and daddy (usually mommy) does the shopping. And God FORBID you ask their little darlings to please allow you to have the cart! (I didn't ask, the male friend I was with did) We had quickly decided to only pick up a few absolutely necessary things since he knows I can't walk well and therefore the big shopping trip we'd expected to do was not going to happen. Momma threw an absolute FIT over her perfectly fit, entitled offspring being asked to give the cart to someone that needed it. "THEY got to it first, b!tch and theys keepin' it! It's here for ANY customers of the store so you get yo lazy a$$ on outta here and leave mah babies ALONE!" (said 'babies' were probably 8 and 10 and had, quite obligingly on my friend's request, gotten off the cart until their mother's voice froze them in their tracks)
We got what I could not live without (staples like TP, girlstuff and a few groceries) and checked out then I sat while he went to get the car as I was now wiped out and literally couldn't go any further with two numb legs. My friend also requested a store manager to complain and got a small shrug and "there's not a lot we can do. Although they are there for our disabled or handicapped patrons, we cannot ask what type of disability someone has. But children are NOT allowed to use it as a toy"--and then went to find EW momma.
I just looked at my friend and said "see, hon? THIS is why I like to bring my own. Besides, I know exactly how my scooter moves, reacts and the radius of turns, etc. Although, I *have* had one customer stop and ask me to please reliquish it so that his wife could use it. (i was at checkout) I looked at my pretty, bright red cart with the USMC, proud mom and handicapped Vet stickers on it and explain to him that this isn't a store cart, i OWN this one.
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