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re: Airport wheelchair occupants
Posted on 9/2/19 at 12:48 pm to RabidTiger
Posted on 9/2/19 at 12:48 pm to RabidTiger
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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 check bags and just have my backpack to carry on, which fits under the seat.
I intentionally wait until they call final boarding to get in the plane, just to frick with the "fight to get on first because I have five carry-ons" crowd.
I cropdust everyone as I walk to my seat, too. Once they close that door, everyone gets to enjoy that for the next three hours.
This post was edited on 9/2/19 at 12:52 pm
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Posted on 9/2/19 at 12:52 pm to RTRinTampa
I believe it was H. W. Bush that passed this abomination of a law.
All of this BS that has happened once the law was passed was predicted to happen.
All of this BS that has happened once the law was passed was predicted to happen.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 12:53 pm to MBclass83
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I've used one in Atlanta because of inflamed knee. I could walk but it was extremely painful. I'm good now but was grateful for the help. Don't judge circumstances you know nothing about.
Agree 100%. I've been in this situation a number of times. After a big foot surgery, I was finally back in tennis shoes and doing PT, but I could not walk through an airport. I could walk, but I couldn't walk that far or very fast especially while pulling luggage or carrying anything. I had to either get a cart or a wheelchair for quite some time, doc's orders, plus I could feel it. I still have issues from time to time.
If you saw me, you'd probably decide I was in the wheelchair or the cart to get special treatment, but that's not the case. Your judgment would be incorrect.
I also don't like boarding early. I hate sitting on the plane a long time while people are brushing past you, knocking you with luggage, not enough AC etc...
Don't be an arse.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 2:33 pm to DustyDinkleman
NINE boarded my plane in wheelchairs
Posted on 9/2/19 at 4:21 pm to lucaslsu
My dad has MS and can't walk long distances, though he can walk. Also even if he could walk the whole way it would literally take him like 45min to walk from the ticket counter to the gate in an airport the size of BTR.
Just because you can walk a few feet doesn't mean you can walk across an airport.
Just because you can walk a few feet doesn't mean you can walk across an airport.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 4:24 pm to lucaslsu
quote:We had another Lucas here, he was much better poster than you.
lucaslsu
Step up your posting game and stop worrying about little shite.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 4:26 pm to soccerfüt
He’s not talking about people who need it, people. He’s talking about people who use it to get on, but all of a sudden don’t need it to get off. It’s like some of y’all can’t read smdh.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 5:46 pm to lucaslsu
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walk through only to sit back down in their chair.
Being able to walk a short distance doesn't mean they don't need assistance dumbfrick.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 6:27 pm to Bluegrass_Cat
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He’s not talking about people who need it, people. He’s talking about people who use it to get on, but all of a sudden don’t need it to get off. It’s like some of y’all can’t read smdh.
There's plenty of explanations for that other than people abusing the service. Again I would like to point out how crazy you'd have to be to use it if you didn't in some way need it. What is the upside?
Posted on 9/2/19 at 6:39 pm to Bluegrass_Cat
quote:I usually have to use a wheelchair when I'm changing planes because I normally don't have time to get across the airport (I walk very slowly and have to take breaks) but I'll usually walk out when I reach my destination because I'm not cramped for time and I don't particularly enjoy being pushed around in a wheelchair.
He’s not talking about people who need it, people. He’s talking about people who use it to get on, but all of a sudden don’t need it to get off. It’s like some of y’all can’t read smdh.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 7:50 pm to northshorebamaman
Grandma, mom and two small children on Friday morning at Dulles. Grandma gets wheeled into the area next to the smoking lounge. Gets up and walks briskly into the smoking lounge. There’s not a goddamned good reason why she used the wheelchair. Mom follows her in there and they leave the two kids alone with a box of donuts.
fricking idiots.
fricking idiots.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 8:06 pm to Bluegrass_Cat
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He’s not talking about people who need it, people. He’s talking about people who use it to get on, but all of a sudden don’t need it to get off. It’s like some of y’all can’t read smdh.
Thanks. I’m not so sure what was so difficult about that?
Posted on 9/2/19 at 8:07 pm to Evolved Simian
A lot of folks in here that can’t read. And make false assumptions.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 8:14 pm to lucaslsu
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And make false assumptions.
If the shoe fits...
Posted on 9/2/19 at 9:36 pm to blueridgeTiger
Hardly
Posted on 9/2/19 at 10:01 pm to MBclass83
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I've used one in Atlanta because of inflamed knee
Think OP is referring to obvious fatties with ailments directly related to their fattiness.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 10:12 pm to jcaz
Yes - exactly
Posted on 9/2/19 at 11:04 pm to Bluegrass_Cat
Sure some people may be abusing it, but him seeing them go out the terminal in a chair doesn't mean they were wheeled all the way to their seat.
They probably walked onto the plane too. When I fly, I always have a wheelchair to get me from gate-to-gate, terminal-to-terminal, and up, and down. the jetway (ramp).
I never get wheeled into or out of the plane, but I do have them push me until I get to the plane, and they push me up the ramp.
As has already been said, some people can walk, but can't do distances.
quote:He didn't board with them. They probably were wheeled to the plane, and then walked to their seats. If he was the last person on, he may have missed them getting in the chair right outside the plane to go up the ramp.
He’s talking about people who use it to get on, but all of a sudden don’t need it to get off. It’s like some of y’all can’t read smdh.
They probably walked onto the plane too. When I fly, I always have a wheelchair to get me from gate-to-gate, terminal-to-terminal, and up, and down. the jetway (ramp).
I never get wheeled into or out of the plane, but I do have them push me until I get to the plane, and they push me up the ramp.
As has already been said, some people can walk, but can't do distances.
This post was edited on 9/2/19 at 11:06 pm
Posted on 9/2/19 at 11:32 pm to chinese58
Flew home from NY earlier this summer and we counted 7 wheelchairs. Everyone one with extreme “culcha” and all 7 35-50 at oldest. None had any discernible illness or disability and they all had the same shirts on (sorority or family reunion or something). After we landed, everyone of them jumped up and walked off unassisted. Complete bullshite. Using the system to board first and make all of us wait..
Posted on 9/3/19 at 12:05 am to LSUFootballLover
Motherfrickers, what in your mind do people with disabilities look like? What do you think someone with cancer, MS, Parkinson's, a heart condition, Rheumatoid Arthritis, metal rods in their spine etc. looks like?
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