[Texaswheelz]

I had a heck of a week at work this week and have decided to start writing on my myspace blog about the crazy crazy people out there, I've written two new ones tonight that i'm sure every one here would find as an interesting and funny read. Enjoy them if you have time.

You can find them here.

[kewlcatkez]

WOW, I soooo relate! I have had several experience like those in your blog lately ( although not quite as odd as the last one!) Not sure if there are more odd balls out at the moment being the Holiday Season or what...


Last week I was out shopping for bits for christmas and I was in a small bookstore. I took my purchases to the counter and told the woman there that I would be paying by card ( I couldn;t see the chip and pin machine). She looked at me horrified and said

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Our machine isn't working so we are having to use the paper method. Will YOU be able to sign your name on the receipt or is there someone with you who can, dear?

I almost choked...but that would have confirmed my lack of brain cells wouldn't it? I am assured that I don't look like I am mentally disabled, so must have been the chair...


K

[Tim13]

Good grief! glad i got my shopping done early.

Sounds like some of those people weren't crazy so much as that they had spent a lot of time around someone who had a certain type or level of disability and didn't really realize there were so many differences. When i was first injured, one of my co workers was a guy who had worked as a caregiver for a high level quad. He just couldn't wrap his brain around the fact that i could move my hands and actually went as far as to tell a few people he thought i was faking my disability for insurance money.
Kind of wish he'd been right...

[dom]

it still shocks me to think there are such crazy primitive people in the world,its as if they come from a different ignorant age and education has passed them by,i'm sorry but i don't sympathise with these people and get fuming angry that they are so gormless.
some of them appear ordinary folk but what goes on in THEIR brains beggars belief

[stabbed]

dom, on Dec 22 2007, 06:25 PM, said:

it still shocks me to think there are such crazy primitive people in the world,its as if they come from a different ignorant age and education has passed them by,i'm sorry but i don't sympathise with these people and get fuming angry that they are so gormless.
some of them appear ordinary folk but what goes on in THEIR brains beggars belief

Im new to this game..incomplete T9 October 2007. On one of my first shopping trips out an elderly lady? came upto to me and said "it must be terrible being a cripple!!"

I was flabbergasted.

[PetitMortVampyre]

Texaswheelz, on Dec 21 2007, 11:19 PM, said:

I had a heck of a week at work this week and have decided to start writing on my myspace blog about the crazy crazy people out there, I've written two new ones tonight that i'm sure every one here would find as an interesting and funny read. Enjoy them if you have time.

You can find them here.

I am stunned at her response to a fellow human being, then again maybe she isn't human.

Idiots surround us all.

[Abdifatah28]

I did all my Christmas shopping online so I could avoid all of that.It was for the best because I would have flipped!!!

[woodman]

What a crazy lady.

Not really much you could do, just wait for her to pass.

[Cheshire]

"raise eyebrows, focus eyes on ground, focus eyes on sky. Reality check completed. Enunciate exclamation. OH DEAR."

We certainly get some interesting reactions...though that one would have been fuel for laughing for a week.

[edlee]

Welcome Stabbed,

It was an odd thing to say. I doubt she meant it in any way to be demeaning. I've had many say things like, " That's such a shame" or " I relly feel bad about that".

It all means they feel sympathy for us. I've no problem with that. It IS terrible, being a cripple.

It's a shame you didn't get to ask her how she liked being old.

Damn,,,I'm both.
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[KarenFerguson]

Nice! I bookmarked your blog. Aren't people just amazing sometimes? I'm gonna go get hubby so he can read your entries too. Feel free to check out my blog as well.

[Ches]

Man the religious lady is like......whatever dude.. what the hell..

The incident at Borders.. oh my god.. thats f*@king halerious. What an idiot. I would have paid to see that. God I hope I run into that lady around town.

[Kev-O]

Wow that lady in the bookstore sounds like she could use a nice healthy punch in the nose.

[smokymtn memories]

Read your blog, TexasWheelz, enjoyed it.

You're the only other one I've heard gripe about the restroom deal. I'm not in a w/c and struggle/manage to walk with a cane, but I still need to use the "last stall" to be able to stand back up. Issues with b&b, so you can only wait so long, and almost every time will be occupied by someone who does'nt need the blasted thing!

Last evening my husband and I got home from a country ride, and he was trying to help me by holding the doors open, and succeeding in getting in my way. I finally had to tell him, get the heck out of the way, I gotta go!

The incident in the book store is so typical too. Why is it some people think if you have a disability, you're also lacking in the brains department!?

The deal with the little gray haired lady, is just plain scary/creepy. Sounds like she is really "out there" somewhere!

[jules]

I Had one of my most embarassing ever moments just before Christmas, I was shopping with my mother in law when we went into a health foods shop. My mum went up to the till to pay for her things when the woman behind the counter asked me if I wanted to try out for a childrens colouring in competition, thinking I had misheard her I said sorry so she asked again even louder, by this time my mum was crying with laughter and we both left. I am 31 years old and don't think I look particularly young.

[Zammo]

Most of these people mean well, but they are just ignorant. You get this stuff all the time, to be honest I pity them for their ignorance.

This post has been edited by Zammo: 28 January 2008 - 03:39 PM

[qbounce]

What a NUT!!! I had a religeous fanatic tell me "The meek shall inherit the Earth" recently and he invited me to his church. Some people just don't have a life.

[KarenFerguson]

Another amazing people moment:

Hubby & I are pushing into the grocery store today (why are all the nuts at the grocery store?) Anyway, he asks us if we're going to the bike race (there's a big one in town today). Ummm, no. These things we're wheeling around in are not bikes. And any resemblance to one is just pain nuts.

[Texaswheelz]

lol, hey it's not just the grocery store, i get em in the book store all day every day while at work, just haven't had time to write any new blogs lately.

Since your husband and you are both in chairs then i'm sure you've been asked if you were going to race numerous times, i hear it every time i'm anywhere near another person in a chair, even if we aren't close to one another, don't know one another and have no plans to talk with one another. The last time i was asked was when i was in a strip club and another para was there sitting about 2 tables over. Some drunk ass fat guy was passing by on his way to the bathroom and decided he had an orginal idea that he just couldn't let pass. So he taps me on my shoulder and when I turn around he hollars at the other guy "You guys should go outside and race!!" So I look at the other guy, then i look at the fat drunk and point out to him the 5 or 6 other fat guys sitting within 20 foot or so and say "You guys should go to Ihop and have a eating contest!" He didn't get it at all though but the other para thought it was hilarious and bought me a few drinks for it. So I've decided from now on every time some one says that to me i'll be sure to gather up 5 or 6 other AB's nearby and have them race first or do what ever else it is they look to have in common.

This post has been edited by Texaswheelz: 23 February 2008 - 04:29 AM

[qbounce]

Hey Texas,
your absolutely right about Karen's racing comments. (She's mentioned it in another thread. . .sorry for answering, K).

Loved your IHOP response!!

[kewlcatkez]

jules, on Jan 10 2008, 02:29 PM, said:

I Had one of my most embarassing ever moments just before Christmas, I was shopping with my mother in law when we went into a health foods shop. My mum went up to the till to pay for her things when the woman behind the counter asked me if I wanted to try out for a childrens colouring in competition, thinking I had misheard her I said sorry so she asked again even louder, by this time my mum was crying with laughter and we both left. I am 31 years old and don't think I look particularly young.

I had something similar to this happen to me..well actually things in this thread ( similar) happen to me a lot. I suppose I either look like I am a child, look like I have a mental disability, or its them. I choose the latter, but hey I am biased.

I don't tend to blog too much about them as I guess its water off a duck's back at times, and too infuriating to waste time on in others..lol..However, I actually blogged about one occasion before Christmas too.

On that occasion, in a little book shop I took my books up to the tills. There was a littl queue and I observed others paying with card and cash etc. The chip and pin must have been broken, and they all had to sign not once did the woman say anything to them regarding that. When it came to my turn, she said in a very loud voice " Can you use the card machine, you have to be able to SIGN your name, you know??" (words to that effect).

I was under the impression that she wasn't getting at my ability to physically hold the pen, but my mental capability!

On another occasion, a while ago I was in Mothercare shopping for some night wear for my two children. Whilst i was waiting in the queue, I heard two other shoppers discussing whether I was buying for a friends kids as "people like her can't have sex or children, surely!" I kid you not. Because I use a wheelchair, its ok to openly say things like this? I actually am not really fab looking, nor am I ugly or anything, I get compliments all the time....esp about my hair and eyes.. and I don't think that I look mentally disabled, as I never got comments before!...

I can actually personally forgive people for thinking the above. Some people are very sheltered.. but I have problems with the fact that they are IGNORANT and rude when they say it out loud in my ear shot! Perhaps they wanted me to set them straight??

Then on another occasion whilst I was visiting my Mum and sister I had the opportunity to meet someone who was quite literally star struck by me! Whilst in the Supermarket, an Elderly ish man and his ?wife were almost losing their eyeballs and snapping their necks trying to get a good view of me! Perhaps they had never seen someone my age with a disability? After all, most of the people who have 'blue badges' (* disabled parking badge) in the small market Town my mum lives are Elderly. Maybe that was why?? maybe not.

take care,

K

This post has been edited by kewlcatkez: 24 February 2008 - 09:41 PM

[rmorgan]

All these are hilarious...well not hilarious, but like someone said, I pity them for THEIR ignorance.

Once me and my fiance were out to eat. It was one of those go up to the counter and pay places. It was a busy night and there was a line starting to form. He was in front of me with the bill as I was standing behind him.

There was a tall man in front of us paying and as he turned to leave he stepped backwards for some reason (knowing there were people behind him) and caught the front of brad's chair and kinda fell backwards.

Brad's first reaction was to kind of "catch" him and gave him a slight push him in the right direction (he apologized to this man even though it wasn't his fault, it's what he always does.)

FURIOUS the man turns and starts yelling "WATCH WHERE YOUR GOING BEFORE YOU PUT SOMEONE ELSE IN YOUR POSITION." Dumbfounded we just stared at him whilst he ran out of the restuarant. If I hadn't been so flabbergasted I might had said a couple of words that didn't need to be spoken in public.....that's the worst I've ever seen!!

[Georgia7]

In my first year at university during registration some lady from administration asked me if i was going to manage?I took it she meant the environment as i can assure u there was not a single facility in place for people with disabilities.Its like noone ever envisioned having a disabled in that place,n' did i mention it is our national university?So,i go like 'i will take one day at a time and c what happens'.Bt she went further n' dropped the bombshell,'i would advise that u take 2 courses per semester instead of the normal 4'.I thot to myself,she's practically asking me to invest 8 solid yrs into somethn i must do in 4?Perplexed is what i was.I simlpy said am thanx bt that wont happen!I was on my crutches not even on a wheelchair that she could ve misjudged my disability.No offence to anyone in a chair,i use one too,bt it's much more common to assume being in a chair is tantamount to mental disability.
Even now when i ask for employment people find it hard to stomach the fact that i have a degree after all in these parts of the world degrees don't come cheap(Africa i meant).
Hilarious indeed r' these rxns.

[Texaswheelz]

rmorgan, on Mar 13 2008, 02:09 PM, said:

All these are hilarious...well not hilarious, but like someone said, I pity them for THEIR ignorance.

Once me and my fiance were out to eat. It was one of those go up to the counter and pay places. It was a busy night and there was a line starting to form. He was in front of me with the bill as I was standing behind him.

There was a tall man in front of us paying and as he turned to leave he stepped backwards for some reason (knowing there were people behind him) and caught the front of brad's chair and kinda fell backwards.

Brad's first reaction was to kind of "catch" him and gave him a slight push him in the right direction (he apologized to this man even though it wasn't his fault, it's what he always does.)

FURIOUS the man turns and starts yelling "WATCH WHERE YOUR GOING BEFORE YOU PUT SOMEONE ELSE IN YOUR POSITION." Dumbfounded we just stared at him whilst he ran out of the restuarant. If I hadn't been so flabbergasted I might had said a couple of words that didn't need to be spoken in public.....that's the worst I've ever seen!!

Yes, it's always hard to say something back to people, because you worry about them thinking your just some angry cripple or if your spouse or friends or partner or what ever says something then it seems that their doing it because you can't, or at least that's what the other people think.