It just boggles my mind the lack of respect for personal space and property I've seen surrounding wheelchairs/ECVs. And in almost every instance where it's happened to me personally, it's been adults, not children.
One time I had parked in the German area of EPCOT to do a little shopping (I walk with a cane). I came back to find a man, a total stranger, just sitting there on my ECV. I stood there a moment until he finally said "What?" I said, "You're sitting on my ECV." His reply? "You weren't using it." And then he acted put out that I told him to MOVE.
I have come back to find that people have used the basket of my ECV as a trash can. I have found the seat put up with evidence that someone has helped themselves to a seat. I have had people lean on the back of my chair. Children climbing and jumping up and down on the front grill (and not stopping until *I* finally tell their parents to have them stop). I had a friend (also in an ECV) who had a man while waiting in line who just started leaning on the front of her ECV. When she told him to stop he refused to until she started *moving* the vehicle to force him away.
As I said, it just boggles my mind.
One time I had parked in the German area of EPCOT to do a little shopping (I walk with a cane). I came back to find a man, a total stranger, just sitting there on my ECV. I stood there a moment until he finally said "What?" I said, "You're sitting on my ECV." His reply? "You weren't using it." And then he acted put out that I told him to MOVE.
I have come back to find that people have used the basket of my ECV as a trash can. I have found the seat put up with evidence that someone has helped themselves to a seat. I have had people lean on the back of my chair. Children climbing and jumping up and down on the front grill (and not stopping until *I* finally tell their parents to have them stop). I had a friend (also in an ECV) who had a man while waiting in line who just started leaning on the front of her ECV. When she told him to stop he refused to until she started *moving* the vehicle to force him away.
As I said, it just boggles my mind.