A Rant

I am able to take my power wheelchair onto the Subway. They have elevators. On my way to work I get on the subway in the middle of the platform because that's where I am when I get off the elevator.

When you're in the middle of the platform you can't tell exactly where the doors of the subway train will be when it stops, or whether you'll be near the front, middle or back of a car. Today when the subway stopped I happened to be by the middle doors. So I wheeled into the subway car and parked in the center where there was room on all sides for people to get around me.

I guy insisted on telling me that I'm REQUIRED to go to the end of the car and park in the spot reserved for handicapped people. I'm apparently not allowed in any other part of the subway car.

I politely told him that I'm not REQUIRED to be anywhere. Those reserved spots are to make sure that there's a place I can get a spot if every other spot is taken, but nobody is REQUIRED to sit there. He argued with me about it. I'm not allowed to be anyplace else on the subway car.
x(

1. In order to get from the center of the car to those handicapped seats I would have had to get past a whole bunch of people and their feet. Not possible, certainly not on a moving train. I would have to get off the train, go down the platform, and reboard. Fuck that!

2. How does a reserved seat suddenly become an assigned seat? There were people sitting in those seats already. I don't know whether or not they had disabilities, but why the hell should I go down there and force someone to move just so I can park my chair there when I'm not in anyone's way where I am?

3. What type of person thinks that they can order me to move just because I have a disability? Why do some people think that people with disabilities have to be meek and obedient? :grr:

Okay, end of rant. :)

Blow it off. He was probably off his meds!

I'm sorry that asshole gave you a hard time.

You're probably right, he's a Freeper. He was standing in the doorway, so people had to go around him to get in our out. If anyone should move his ass to an assigned seat it should have been him. :P

Meek and obedient, you follow the leader down well-trodden corridors into the valley of steel



But, later that same song...



Bleating and babbling, we fell on his neck with a scream

Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into a dream



Fuck 'em. :headbang:

Sounds like a good one though. :)

I'm not very good at being meek and obedient. And being told to be either one really pisses me off. :P

From Pink Floyd's "Animals."



The sheep revolted. :headbang:

I have a low threshhold for assholes ordering me around. x(

I hope nobody actually listens to people to like him.

That was not a good way to start the day.

Fortunately, I have the lounge. This is a good place to end the day. :)

Some people totally do not get it at all. They think that anyone with a disability is stupid, or ignorant, or has the mental capacity of a 6 month old, and MUST BE TOLD how things are. As if a disability automatically renders one stupid or something. As if THEY, the mighty THEY, have the right to treat the disabled as "less than."

Now I'm ranting, but I work with people with disabilities, and shit like that really pisses me off! :grr: :grr: :grr:

:hug:

:mad:

:P

Not really. I was remarkably polite to him given how much of an asshole he was.

I was having a crappy day, too, so I'd be sure to kick this jerk really hard this time.

he wouldn't have dared to say anything to me. People with disabilities are only easy targets when we're alone. :P

And when he least suspects it, BAM! :P

...wasn't sitting in a wheelchair. Shoulda' offered him a breath mint and calmly asked him to find a seat. I'm betting he would have exploded and you would have had a fun tale to tell instead.

That's awesome! I'm going to remember that and use it if there's a next time. :P