I"ve been in a wheel chair for over twenty years and these are some of the things I have learned.
Years ago I drove a wheel chair lift van and while at a local mall the following occurred. I very carefully looked for a parking space where my side lift could come down and not be blocked in when I came back out. I found a spot where I could park along side of a bike rack thinking that nobody would park between me and the rack. Much to my dismay someone had squeezed there Cadillac between my van and the bike rack. Mall security came by while my wife moved the van so I could get in. Security refused to do anything about the situation. Strangely once security left and I drove away the Cadillac apparently needed four new marker lights, as they had been smashed out.
I"m an average white male who doesn"t look like any stereotypical ethnic group so it"s not my "look" but white people tend to be the rudest. I’ve been offered help from every typical ethnic group even people who speak little or no English yet try to help.
It"s obvious, that since I’m in a chair I must be deaf. People will talk louder or talk to the people I’m with instead of addressing me directly.
Little kids are honest and inquisitive adults tend to be rude. Kids tend to connect to the chair since it’s not unlike a stroller. They tend to want to push it around, adults scurry away like I’m contagious.
Once at a gas station during bad weather the cashier could see me from her window yet she wanted me to prepay inside before she would turn on the pump. I had no idea how much I would need so I would have had to push my chair across the lot once to prepay and again to get my change and receipt. My adult son happened into the station to make a purchase at that point. He went inside the station and chewed her out for her lack of consideration. He asked her if she thought I was going to drive away without paying. He suggested that maybe she get off her dead A$$ and pump for me.
One of my vehicles is a large diesel pickup truck, in the winter I frequently park it locked and running so that it’s warm when I come back out. While in a store once some old busy body called the cops because my truck was in a handicapped stall and he didn’t think it belonged there. While I was in the store he had tried to get into it to move it. I came out of the store to find the officer who happened to know me trying to get the busy body to mind his own business. The old guy didn’t seam to get it even when the cop told him it would have been breaking and entering.
These are just some of the things I have learned……
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