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Old 08-20-2009, 09:55 AM
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Default VENT non handicapped using H/C rest rooms

This is one of my biggest peeves!

In addition to the MS and associated issues with heat, I had major knee surgery on the 5th and am just now beginning to get around with one crutch. Can't use 2 crutches cause the left arm can't control the crutch [MS issue]

DH had purchased a lightweight power chair and we drove to pick it up. Of course we missed our exit and had a wonderful tour of downtown Brooklyn NY.
We finally got the chair and were making our way back home & stopped at a rest stop on the turnpike.

It is hot and humid as heck and I had been in the car for quite a while, so I was not ambulating very well.
I am walking?? up the ramp into the building, after having people breathing down my neck....Hey are you BLIND, can't you see me barely making it up the ramp,I am using CRUTCHES, and I can't go any faster!!Duh!

I make it to the ladies room, after being cut off by a young mother and her toddler. Of course the HC stall is occupied.....yep by young healthy Mom & toddler. The only other HC stall is at the other end of the rest room, no way I could make it there.
I must say quite a few people offered to help, as I was now swaying in the breeze & struggling to stay upright.

My reply to those who offered to help was "Thank You but I am waiting for the able-bodied person to finish using the HC stall"
Finally out pops yuppie mom saying "Other people use the HC stall also!"
Yes I reply but there is no reason you have to use the stall nearest the door, You can get to the farther stall. I can't!!
Yuppie Mom's reply was "Deal with it"
My reply was " I was once in your shoes, healthy and with young children and would never have used the HC stall. Just remember Karma is a b%*$h.
I may have been rude but I had had it and had to vent.
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