Thread: The attitude of some people to disabled.

Nothing to do with the lockdown old mate, Some people are simply born to be rude, ignorant arseholes.

Someone I go kayaking with every week has been in a wheelchair since a skydiving accident forty one years ago. He is often quite vocal about the lack of consideration he sometimes experiences.

The thing that he most often mentions to me is the way some people use disabled parking spots. He often sees a car with a sticker in a disabled spot at a shopping centre. The perfectly able driver then goes shopping while the person who qualified for the disabled sticker sits in the car. Given the limited number of disabled spots available, he sees no reason why they should use the spot if there is no disabled person getting out of the car.

I suspect, Roverlord, that the woman who you encountered is rude to everyone, not just people in wheelchairs. The wheelchair probably just gave her something new to be rude about.

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

yesterday I attended my Neuro physio appt, (she has an exemption to treat me at her premises due to my care), she also suggested that I take advantage of my 1 hour exercise period and just go for a ride near home in my wheel chair as I have been house bound for weeks. I went to the local shopping trip and was wheeling slowly as you often get people just dart out of shops without looking, or texting. I have to be on my toes as pedestrians have right of way over me.

I then notice 2 woman walking behind me and one of them is hurtling abuse at me, she claims the regulations say a MINIMUM speed is 5 kph for me on a foot path, they pass me and then she turns around again to abuse me. I believe the average person walks at about 3.5 kph and 5ph would be a bit of a jog.
Regs in Vic say wheel chair/ mobility scooters have MAXIMUM speed allowed of 10 kph on a paved path.

I was not in the mood to have a confrontation with her so went on my way. If l was in any way holding them up ( there was room for them to pass either side of me) then the few seconds that occurred it would of out weighed the time of her life wasted in abusing me)

Discussing this on a wheel chair users face book, it seems there is a bit of prejudice against wheel chair users. I didn't ask to become disabled and I couldnt believe some ppl can be cruel.
I put it down to the lock down and maybe she was coping to well in her me me me world.

You need a Camera mate. Video of the stupid self-righteous selfish sod would be delightful to look at for everyone mate . I have a great little old gopro I will donate your way if I can find it. Almost assume the More frenzied media would pay you for that one

Originally Posted by vnx205

Someone I go kayaking with every week has been in a wheelchair since a skydiving accident forty one years ago. He is often quite vocal about the lack of consideration he sometimes experiences.

The thing that he most often mentions to me is the way some people use disabled parking spots. He often sees a car with a sticker in a disabled spot at a shopping centre. The perfectly able driver then goes shopping while the person who qualified for the disabled sticker sits in the car. Given the limited number of disabled spots available, he sees no reason why they should use the spot if there is no disabled person getting out of the car.

I suspect, Roverlord, that the woman who you encountered is rude to everyone, not just people in wheelchairs. The wheelchair probably just gave her something new to be rude about.

Roverlord that is a sad indictment of society.

vnx205, Not everyone with a disabled sticker has a visible disability, some have other conditions which qualifies them, and no I didn't abuse an ill person to find this out.

You need a Camera mate. Video of the stupid self-righteous selfish sod would be delightful to look at for everyone mate . I have a great little old gopro I will donate your way if I can find it. Almost assume the More frenzied media would pay you for that one

Absolutely! If not a GoPro then buy a cheap bracket for your mobile phone. Idiots like that need to have their ugly mugs posted on social media.

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

it seems there is a bit of prejudice against wheel chair users. I didn't ask to become disabled and I couldnt believe some ppl can be cruel.

People like that are just ignorant worthless ****s mate and they arent worth the time to think about. These would be the same arseholes that park in disabled parking spots, to which I'm quite fine to call them out in front of others. Hopefully sooner or later they will get there dues.

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

Roverlord that is a sad indictment of society.

vnx205, Not everyone with a disabled sticker has a visible disability, some have other conditions which qualifies them, and no I didn't abuse an ill person to find this out.

That's true. However, I think his point is that unless the person getting out of the car needs the extra width of the parking spot to make it possible to get the wheelchair out of the car or unless the person who goes to the shops has so much difficulty walking that they need to use the closest spots, they probably have less need for the disabled spot that he does.

In the same way that I qualify to park in the "Seniors Parking" near the lift, I wouldn't dream of using one of those spots because I am sure I am more agile than a lot of seniors who are more than a decade younger than I am.

While some cars might be display a disabled sticker, he is convinced that some of the people who use them could easily manage with a normal, narrower parking spot a few metres further from the shops. he needs the extra width just to get out of the car.

Maybe after forty one years in a wheelchair he has become a bit intolerant of people he thinks are abusing the system.

I bet your abuser was young, fit & healthy?
See how she's going in 40/50 years or so.
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