Rude handicap people
i take the train into work because of the convenience and to save money. as with most trains, there is generally an area in each train car designated for handicapped passengers. however, with rush hour crowds they can be hard to access. so in those cases, wheelchair-bound passengers tend to park in front of the train doors. in all the years that i've ridden the train here, people will make the effort to leave through another door so as not to have to make handicapped passengers move their chair or go around them. and oncoming passengers will do the same without any problems. this is all part of the public transportation culture here in hotlanta as i have seen it. now with all that said, i was getting on the train the other day and there was a woman in a wheelchair sitting in front of the door. she was facing the opposite direction and a little closer to the other door so there was no problem when i boarded. at the next stop, the door she was facing was the door that opened onto the platform. as people were boarding, she decided to announce to those people that they needed to stand in the aisles adjacent to her chair and that they could not stand by the door because she was getting off in a few stops...not the next stop...but a few stops down. not only that but she was quite rude about it. she didn't suggest they stand someplace else, she told them to. i was thinking to myself, what if someone boarded the train at one stop and was getting off at the next stop? why should they have to stand so far away from the door because you said so? and even if her stop was coming up, what was so wrong with someone standing near the door and then stepping outta the way to let her off? it happens all the time on a crowded train. but noooooooo, she didn't see it that way. now my question is...is it wrong for handicap people to be rude in situations like that? i mean, i know they're normal people but just physically limited, but c'mon! maybe i'm overanalyzing this, but it would seem to me that a woman in her position would be a bit more pleasant considering no one did anything to intentionally inconvenience her, but she felt like she deserved extra special treatment when it wasn't necessary. all i kept wondering was whether or not i would've snapped back at her, had i been one of the passengers she told where they could and couldn't stand. i'm thankful that i wasn't. now what was kind of funny was when she did exit the train, the rest of us looked around at each other with expressions that said "can you believe her?"
She was rude! She's lucky no one rolled her ass out the door at the next stop!
Posted by
Paula D. |
1:53 PM
LOL! I would imagine it's hard to be handicapped. Thankfully, it's not something that has been experienced in my family, but DAMN! She did not have to come at y'all like that. Handicapped people need to exercise good manners, too.
Posted by
Coco LaRue |
1:32 AM
uhhhh
There are some evil bitter assholes rollin on wheels out there. Have you ever seen those bright red candy-flaked scooters people have now??? The same guy came within 2 feet of me - he had a berth of at least 6 feet. A friend was almost hit by an asshole in one of these scooters.
Just b/c you can't walk doesn't give you the right to be an asshole.
Posted by
Anonymous |
1:02 PM
There is a lady here at the plantation that has a bright red scooter. I swear she has hydraulics on that bitch...hitting switches and shit. She'll turn the corners all extra sharp and knock your ass down if you're not paying attention.
Posted by
Julia_Claudine_Deveraux |
12:10 PM