Lazy Cripples and the Workers Who Hate Them

juniorfan29 oh-so-innocently bitches in

customers_suck about people who have the gall to shop in wheelchairs without planning ahead. Or bringing along a hired nurse.

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.

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.

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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altoidsaddict
2007-02-20 08:10 pm UTC (link)

Just in case nobody got it, I can remember a pretty close summation. I guess

shadowsync works with insurance, and the policyholders have services there, and that led to the assumption that ALL disabled people have good health insurance that takes care of all their needs in an affordable, timely, and competent manner. ALSO, there was something along the lines of "You can order anything off the Internet. I know Internet may be a little harder to get, but there's lots of cheap, affordable net access, and my friend got a refurbished laptop for $300, so it's not like it's a hard thing to afford." And somewhere in there was how great services are for the disabled, because as long as you belong to a church, they'll pick up the slack and help you with whatever else you need.

And that was the part that made me think s/he's had G.W. Bush's BS about faith-based initiatives on continuous loop. Hell, on COPS the other day, I watched 'em boot a guy out of a motel paid for by a church at the orders of a pastor, because he had taken their services without "truly accepting Jesus into his heart." Granted, the guy had warrants and was an alcoholic, so I'm not criticizing the pastor's decision to cut off aid if he wouldn't help himself; make more room for those who will help themselves, yanno? But why bring his lack of conversion into it? It shows that, if you are a non-believer, the very idea of faith-based initiatives asks you to compromise more than your physical well-being and implies that you must compromise your civil rights just to get someone to get you a damn box of crackers.

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hallidae
2007-02-20 08:43 pm UTC (link)

Oh, fuck yes. I kinda avoid going to church for my own reasons anyway, but while living in Savannah, I got hauled to a friend's church because the person who usually went with her was out of town and she didn't want to go by herself (which, in retrospect, should have been the first warning flag). While there, I overheard a couple of ladies talking while they were putting together the holiday charity baskets, and apparently, a family had actually been taken off the list to recieve a food basket because their daughter was looking into converting to a religion-that-I-can't-remember-but-wasn't-Southern Baptist Christianity.

Needless to say, I never went back.

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	judyhazeleyes 2007-02-21 08:36 pm UTC (link)
	ALL disabled people have good health insurance that takes care of all their needs in an affordable, timely, and competent manner. HAR HAR HAR. Oh, and HAR HAR. Does affordable, timely, competent healthcare even exist? For anyone? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

altoidsaddict
2007-02-21 08:56 pm UTC (link)

I think I have one of the best plans in the country, I live in a major metropolitan area, the insurance pays for everything except orthotics, and they still can't get my heart problem fixed before April - if they can get to it then anyway. And I'm on borrowed time. At least I have two out of the three, but it doesn't even matter how good your insurance is if there's no availability for anyone.

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