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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]mistressrenet
2007-02-23 06:45 pm UTC (link)
I sometimes park in the handicapped space when I forget my dad's sign and have him with me, but he's blind so I think that counts.

I just don't get why the extra ten feet matter so much for people. Dude, half the time it's not even raining.

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[info]altoidsaddict
2007-02-24 03:58 am UTC (link)
In my case, I have a heart condition. In the store I can use the little go-cart if I get tired and I tend to limit my movements while shopping - but outside, there have been days where not having to walk an extra ten feet to sit in the car and catch my breath is an absolute godsend.

Of course, since I don't have a visible disability since my foot got better, I'm expecting any day to get yelled at for not looking disabled.

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[info]mistressrenet
2007-02-24 04:11 am UTC (link)
Probably, yes. People always know so well what other people are going through.

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