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Altoids Addict ([info]altoidsaddict) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-02-20 01:47:00


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Lazy Cripples and the Workers Who Hate Them
[info]juniorfan29 oh-so-innocently bitches in [info]customers_suck about people who have the gall to shop in wheelchairs without planning ahead. Or bringing along a hired nurse. [info]shadowsync, meanwhile, doesn't know why they have such trouble; as long as the handicapped belong to a church and have the internet, things are taken care of since they all have good health insurance. [info]zannechaos is trying to pin the blame on the liability issue and is less insulting about it than the OP, but doesn't stay out of the Trenton Tarpits of Wank by any means. [info]angriestgirl, in a fit of pique, declares that she has "lost interest in this little cockfight already," but comments not two minutes later about slang being invalid in text.

In case it gets deleted: Dear lady in a wheelchair:

If you are going to be out shopping, then you either need to be able to get yourself in and out of your wheelchair, or you need to bring someone along with you that can help you. Luckily you were able to find another stupid and guillible customer to help you today, because although one of our employees was stupid enough to help you the other day...we WILL NOT be helping you in and out of your car/wheelchair any longer.

No love,
juniorfan29


I wouldn't be stupid enough to not make arrangements for someone to help me, rather than assume that the employees of a store are going to risk a lawsuit to come out and put me in a wheelchair.

I'd post it to clairvoyant, but I don't have to lick a wall socket to know it'll hurt, and neither do I have to wonder if this is going to turn into a screaming, frothy, Santorum-laden mess in about an hour. (ETA: And gosh, look at that! Didn't even take that long.)

ETA: Dang, bahleeted. And just when we were getting to the funny parts - the flouncing, the grammar wank, the "you don't know the history of nursing! I do!" wank. Rats.


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[info]aerobot
2007-02-20 12:02 pm UTC (link)
Hmm. Helping a lady in a wheelchair = stupid and gullible. Who knew?

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[info]jaseroque
2007-02-20 03:47 pm UTC (link)
There's a kickass lady that comes into my supermarket sometimes. She has NO ARMS OR LEGS. Mosttimes she brings her help along, but she is only semi-assisted living (probably by choice) so sometimes one of us will go around and pick up her shopping for her. She is deeply cool, and I still feel mild guilt for being so small I could not carry more than two bottles of coke.

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[info]vigilanterodent
2007-02-20 05:13 pm UTC (link)
My old store had a regular shopper who had fairly severe dwarfism - she was slightly over knee-height to me. If she was alone we'd help her with her shopping, because she couldn't reach much, and I don't think it ever dawned on anyone to bitch about having to help her. I mean, it's not like it was her fault. Also, she was ten pounds of awesome in a one pound package.

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[info]zaliesiren
2007-02-20 11:05 pm UTC (link)
One of my favorite customers at my old store was blind, but he always came in with someone else, except once - and then he trusted me enough to pick out his beer, which I was happy to do. He was just that awesome.

Also, anyone who helps my night-blind ass in a dark movie theater is on my happy list for forever (and they probably get a free candy bar out of the deal too!)

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[info]aerobot
2007-02-21 09:54 am UTC (link)
Wow, that is a KICKASS woman. Go her.

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-21 01:34 am UTC (link)
When I worked grocery and got to help someone shop, I about wet my pants with excitement. Anything to get off of that damn register.

Too bad they usually had the baggers do it. :(

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-21 10:24 pm UTC (link)
I regularly help a client who has emphysema with getting her and her dog to and from her car, what does that make me?

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[info]yaoiko
2007-02-22 06:21 pm UTC (link)
A good person. Don't listen to the crazies.

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