I don't care that they're handicapped - watch where they're driving with their scooters!!!

[LynneSin]

I was just standing there browsing in a store when I got hit by some lady on a damn scooter.

I have the nastiest bruise on my leg now.

[slj0101]

1. At least you can still walk.

[LynneSin]

3. Yes, and I know - I should be damn greatful that I can still walk

but damnit - shouldn't these people get licences and maintain a certain speed limit with their scooters

:grr:

[slj0101]

14. Speed Limit???

:D

Don't they top out at 3 or something? Slow enough where you could chuck a box at them next time...

[Blue Diadem]

39. Some rascals top out at 8mph.

I wonder if some go faster than that.

[nini]

11. that's bullshit

just because someone cannot walk and is in one of those things does not mean they can drive around like maniacs going faster than pedestrian traffic etc.

I spent a year in a wheelchair and I paid close attention to those around me. Not being able to walk is not excuse for bad manners.

[slj0101]

18. I never justified the person's rudeness in my response.

She got a bruise, and the person in the scooter is a jerk. There's no denying that, but at the end of the day, I'd take bruise on the shin over confinement to a scooter anyday.

[Shakespeare]

2. ...

[LynneSin]

4. I know - I'm an awful person but damnit, it hurts!!

[Shakespeare]

8. Actually, I agree with you completely.

You're not exempt from basic courtesy, even if you're handicapped. I hope she at least apologized when she rammed into you!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. well you are judging people by the same standards. i am sure you dont like it when an non-disabled

person runs into you, causing a bruise, either

[LynneSin]

7. Equal opportunity piss rant

Had she looked forward or stop her scooter if she wanted to look an opposit direction she would have not hit me.

[Coventina]

6. I'm with you, LynneSin. Rudeness is rudeness no matter who

does it.

Flame suit is ON!

[LisaM]

9. Those scooters are way too powerful for their purpose

My FIL had one (briefly). They had to take it away from him after he knocked over a dining room table in his care facility.

[Omphaloskepsis]

13. Old people might live on hills.. Or have steep driveways.

The same could be said for cars. I say 60hp maximum. </daily bitching about cars>

[LisaM]

16. I'm not saying they should have scooters for people who need them

I'm just saying that the ones they have are the equivalent of having a hot rod car.

[Zuiderelle]

10. This cat agrees with you:

[LSK]

12. you sure it wasnt matcom in a wig?

:popcorn:

[Shell Beau]

15. Oh my! Are you okay? That can be a little scary!

[KamaAina]

17. The PC term is "people with disabilities".

So, people with disabilities should watch where they're driving with their scooters.

I'll have to ask my boss if she's ever left tread marks on anyone (goodness knows she's been tempted...)

[China_cat]

36. I did...once

Street preachers in the only curb cut for a dozen blocks who refused to move for 15 seconds to let me up on the sidewalk. Told me to go around on a narrow one-way street with heavy traffic. I ran over them.

Most scooters are limited to 5 mph at top speed (store scooters top out at 1.75) which we don't always use. The exceptions to the 5mph are outdoor only scooters made for use in rough terrain, not indoors. They do a blazing 8mph.

Except for the street preachers, I've never run into anyone, been very careful of where and how I use it but that never seems to be enough for people. I've been pushed over, had shopping carts run into me and flatly been told that if I can't get there on my own legs I shouldn't be out in public. Period.

[blondeatlast]

19. I don't care if you are pushing a stroller, either (as I have).

They are quite maneuverable so there is no need to expect me to completely yield to you.

I'll yield to a wheelchair regardless whether it's being pushed or the user is powering it; they can't stop on a dime. But a stroller? We can both move--I shouldn't have to cross an entire aisle for you.

[texas1928]

20. Be glad it was a scooter and not one of these.

http://www.tankchair.com/

[Mrs. Venation]

27. I Hope My Brother Never Sees That

He's paralyzed on his right side, and he uses a motorized wheel chair sometimes. We are good old Tennessee rednecks, and if he saw that tank chair he'd want it some kind of bad! I shudder to think of where he'd go or whom he would run over.

[Taverner]

21. Don't get me started on scooters

I'll get called all kinds of names.

I got hit by a lady on a scooter once too, and instead of apologizing, she backed up and said "Move it or lose it!" I've noticed a "fuck you" attitude among scooter drivers that isn't there with people in wheelchairs, motorized or not.

[LynneSin]

22. my scooter lady was not that apologetic either

I was facing the clothing rack browsing so it's not like I was trying to run over anyone

[Taverner]

23. I'd be willing to bet that lady could walk if she wanted

The woman who hit me was morbidly obese, but did not look as if she had atrophied muscles. My guess is she was angry at the world.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

24. ...

:rofl: :popcorn:

[LynneSin]

25. She was actually normal weighted

so it probably was some sort of disability other than inability to drive a damn scooter

[Taverner]

26. Or she could have just been lazy

:spank:

[pipoman]

28. My wife was hit this morning at the grocery store..no apology

IMO most of those who use the motor carts at the store are just too fat and lazy to walk. Not the case as much with those who bring their own. :hide:

[LynneSin]

29. Actually I used them once but I was dying of the flu

And I had to get some Nyquil and OJ.

I was so out of it I took the damn cart

[madinmaryland]

30. I thought you guys had tolls in the grocery stores also.

so that you could slow the shopping traffic down even more!!1!!

:evilgrin:

[Blue-Jay]

31. Try walking around the nickel slots in Vegas.

They'll mow you down.

(especially at Caesar's for some reason)

[spinbaby]

32. The people who use them all the time are good

Really handicapped people who use a scooter or powerchair all the time are very good at navigating them. It's the people who don't really know how to work them and then get the grocery-store scooter which doesn't work right anyway that are dangerous.

[hedgehog]

33. We have a rash of people driving scooters in the street.

I don't know what to think of this. We also have a lot of people who walk in the street, so maybe it's just an extension of that pedestrian habit.

[China_cat]

37. Look at your sidewalks carefully some time

Are there curb cuts to facilitate getting across streets or curbs high enough to take out the scooter motor? Are the sidewalks level and unbroken? Ok, how about just level enough not to tip over on? Are the sidewalks wide enough to accomodate anything more than an upright person on 2 legs? (Here in Charleston we have sections of downtown with trees growing in the middle of the sidewalks. Even push wheelchairs have to go out in the street because there's no room to get through)

These are things you might not think about until you have to navigate them in another manner than walking. Despite the commercials for places like the Scooter Store, insurance (if you have it) will usually NOT pay for a motorized chair or scooter. When you save up to pay the $2-$3k to buy one, you do everything you can to keep it in best working order.

[jpgray]

34. I think old/disabled people should be given way more slack.

But yeah they should watch where they're going.

[GalleryGod]

35. BACK from F.L.A. ! Bless 'Ya, Babe!

How you could tear yourself away from The Greater Clearwater Beach area,I'll never know !?

[mduffy31]

38. Nothing more dangerous

Than an old woman with a Rascal scooter.