(October 8, 2016 at 8:40 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Can I just say - You are not disabled.
This old woman was on my trip to Catalonia. By coincidence, she was on the same plane going, stayed in the same hotel, went on the same daytrip to Girona and was on the same plane going home.
So she rocks up to the airport going, in a wheelchair, and because I didn't know her at this point I didn't think anything of it.
Until we get to Catalonia.
This old... person, goes racing around the hotel on her feet, not even a walking stick needed to support her, when she wants to be first in the queue to get her food in the canteen. She has no problem going on a daytrip to Girona and walking around the town all afternoon.
But then go back to the airport to come home, suddenly she's "disabled" again and has to be pushed around and helped by a (absolutely gorgeous) worker from the airport.
You serious?
I wouldn't care much, but just remember old lady, next time a genuinely disabled person who really can't walk comes along, someone will think of you when they look at them.
That kind of shit pisses me right off.
I almost got into a pissing match at Walmart because of something like that. SUV parked in one of the van accessible spaces. The vehicle has a temporary placard. The family comes out of the store. No one has anything noticeably wrong with them. No wheelchairs, canes, oxygen, noticeable difficulty walking, nothing. My mom and I make a couple comments we thought were under our breath, but the wife heard us.
"Not all disabilities are visible!"
Well, duh. But if your disability doesn't affect your movement (apparently it was the husband and he was easily putting bags in the back of the SUV), then don't fucking take the spaces for people like me, who need the van accessible spaces so we can enter/exit our vehicles safely without playing in traffic. You can park a couple spaces down without it being a hassle. I can't.
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