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re: Airport wheelchair occupants
Posted on 9/2/19 at 8:06 am to lucaslsu
Posted on 9/2/19 at 8:06 am to lucaslsu
It's called the Southwest miracle, by Southwest Airlines attendants. They all need help getting to gate, first to board. Then when they land, it's like they were miraculously cured in flight, because they spring up and walk off plane like everyone else.
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Posted on 9/2/19 at 8:10 am to CaptainsWafer
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Some people just abuse the system bc they’re fat. These women are four of them.
I enjoy that you declared dad needed it but these women you never met or saw do not
Posted on 9/2/19 at 8:20 am to lucaslsu
You shouldn’t judge others.
Having a parent who recently passed from Alzheimer’s, I can tell you that even though they may look okay, they may not be okay. It’s often about being able to get the person from one point to another in a reasonable amount of time. Also, the TSA treats all of these people like absolute shite. They grope them in every possible location. Watching one of these creeps handle granny’s breast’s and feeling her Depends underwear is behind infuriating.
Having a parent who recently passed from Alzheimer’s, I can tell you that even though they may look okay, they may not be okay. It’s often about being able to get the person from one point to another in a reasonable amount of time. Also, the TSA treats all of these people like absolute shite. They grope them in every possible location. Watching one of these creeps handle granny’s breast’s and feeling her Depends underwear is behind infuriating.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 9:20 am to LSUwag
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You shouldn’t judge others. Having a parent who recently passed from Alzheimer’s, I can tell you that even though they may look okay, they may not be okay. It’s often about being able to get the person from one point to another in a reasonable amount of time. Also, the TSA treats all of these people like absolute shite. They grope them in every possible location. Watching one of these creeps handle granny’s breast’s and feeling her Depends underwear is behind infuriating
This is NOT applicable to any of these people in my post. Oldest was maybe 55.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 9:21 am to cuyahoga tiger
Yep - WN flight.
I fly 100k per year for work and it’s running rampant.
I fly 100k per year for work and it’s running rampant.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 9:31 am to cuyahoga tiger
My wife is a Delta flight attendant and they refer to this as “Jetway Jesus”.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 9:35 am to Dawgholio
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Because we cater to fat asses in this country because of lawsuits and “disabilities”
Clinton passing the ADA has been a huge boom for lawyers. There are groups of supposedly disabled people that do nothing put go around and sue businesses for not being ADA compliant. All of the strip clubs in Tampa now have wheelchair ramps and preferred seating for fatasses.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 9:35 am to NoSaint
It’s nice to be appreciated, thanks.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 9:39 am to lucaslsu
I don’t know other people’s situations, and even if I did know, that doesn’t bother me.
I’m just grateful it exists in case a loved one needs it.
I’m just grateful it exists in case a loved one needs it.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 9:59 am to lucaslsu
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they rise (completely unassisted) out of their chair and walk through only to sit back down in their chair.
Jackass - my wife looks healthy and can walk, but it causes considerable pain to walk any distance as a result of a stroke she had ten years ago; so we get a wheel chair at airports. Yes, she gets dirty looks from dip-shits when she rises out of the chair to go through security but without the chair assistance from the terminal entrance to boarding the plane, we wouldn't be able to take trips at all. Most people we encounter at airports are accommodating and understanding, but we do run into a few jerks.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 10:30 am to blueridgeTiger
Update:
Of the NINE wheelchairs that boarded on two were left on the plane waiting on a chair. I was in the last row.
So I’m happy the other 7 were healed.
Of the NINE wheelchairs that boarded on two were left on the plane waiting on a chair. I was in the last row.
So I’m happy the other 7 were healed.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 10:48 am to lucaslsu
You sound like a miserable frick. I've had to use it before for health reasons, and it can be a huge PITA (waiting around for attendants, not being able to eat or use the bathroom). You'd have to be seriously fricked in the head to use it if you didn't need it. Not to mention it takes a tremendous amount of humility to let someone else push you in a wheelchair.
I don't understand why everyone wants to board first either. I hate boarding first. It adds an extra 45 minutes you have to sit on the plane, and every single other passenger has to shuffle by and bump into you.
I've had to use it dozens of times, and I've never encountered someone abusing it. It's always older folks, people with injuries, and people with diseases.
I don't understand why everyone wants to board first either. I hate boarding first. It adds an extra 45 minutes you have to sit on the plane, and every single other passenger has to shuffle by and bump into you.
I've had to use it dozens of times, and I've never encountered someone abusing it. It's always older folks, people with injuries, and people with diseases.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 11:53 am to RabidTiger
This was abuse - plain and simple. Thanks for your assumptions though buddy!
This post was edited on 9/2/19 at 11:54 am
Posted on 9/2/19 at 12:11 pm to lucaslsu
lol...this whole thread is based on YOU making assumptions 
Posted on 9/2/19 at 12:14 pm to lucaslsu
You saw 7 people in wheelchairs in one airport?
I feel like you’re exaggerating a tad.
I feel like you’re exaggerating a tad.
This post was edited on 9/2/19 at 12:16 pm
Posted on 9/2/19 at 12:19 pm to lucaslsu
I can only imagine how terrible it will be once the most entitled generation, the millennials, approach retirement age.
Wheel chair making factories won't be able to keep up with the orders.
Wheel chair making factories won't be able to keep up with the orders.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 12:35 pm to DustyDinkleman
I feel like you haven’t been to an airport in a while, especially one of the bigger ones.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 12:37 pm to lucaslsu
One of my buddies is waiting for heart transplant, he can walk about 100 ft perfectly fine, but then has to rest for 30 minutes before he can even move again. The are many disabilities that allow a person to stand and walk a few dozen feet perfectly fine, but make moving through a airport terminal unassisted impossible.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 12:46 pm to monteandmakers
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They claim they need one so they can get through security faster and board first. No one at the airport is going to question them at the risk of violating some sort of ADA law; it’s easier to just push them around with an $8/hr worker. Ever notice someone who needs a wheelchair at the departure airport but not the destination? It’s because they would have to wait for everyone to deplane before they can get the wheelchair. They don’t want to wait so they just walk off. It doesn’t happen all the time but have definitely seen it before.
You should be allowed to make those people handicapped so they need the chair for the rest of their lives.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 12:47 pm to DustyDinkleman
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You saw 7 people in wheelchairs in one airport?
I feel like you’re exaggerating a tad.
If Bernie gets elected, he has promised us ALL our own wheelchair, our own attendant, AND our own airport!!!
Feel the BERN!!!
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