alabamaalan
<font color=green>Alan, you can run, but you can't
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I saw a horrible example of ECV abuse on my recent trip to WDW.
First of all, I do understand the "invisible user" concept that I hear many people complain about and made a point to my small child to be aware of those around us and make sure we were not adding to congestion.
Nevertheless, I saw an ECV user that was abusing other people to the point where she horrified the crowd around her.
We were in line for the Jungle Cruise in MK and I heard the horn on an ECV honking continuously. I wish I knew the whole story but we were moving (albeit slowly) and I did not see what led to the problem.
What I saw was an older lady in her ECV ram a man holding a small child in his arms. Then she backed up and rammed him again at full speed in the back of his calfs! Fortunately, he did not drop his child. She then ran under the rope seperating the accessible loading point from the rest of the attraction, and was sitting indignantly waiting for the CMs to approach her.
Perhaps she did not have good control of the rented vehicle, but the ramming of the man in front of her (twice) was obviously deliberate.
It looked like she was just in a hurry even though the line she was in could not move since there was a rope up in front of the man.
It put a serious distaste in everyone's mouth that saw it for her. I wish I knew what the CMs did. As far as I am concerned, she should have been thrown out of the park.
All I could think of was the "public relations" damage she was doing as a disservice to all of those in the parks attempting to use their ECVs as courteously as possible among the "unseeing" and sometimes uncaring crowd.
It is hard enough to get acceptance and acknowlegement without someoneone's complete and udder rudeness ruining it for everyone.
Was she an exception to most wheelchair or ECV users? Of course. Will it matter to uninformed people who saw her display? Probably not, although I do think most people were judging her as an individual and not grouping all users together but you know how it goes sometimes.....
First of all, I do understand the "invisible user" concept that I hear many people complain about and made a point to my small child to be aware of those around us and make sure we were not adding to congestion.
Nevertheless, I saw an ECV user that was abusing other people to the point where she horrified the crowd around her.
We were in line for the Jungle Cruise in MK and I heard the horn on an ECV honking continuously. I wish I knew the whole story but we were moving (albeit slowly) and I did not see what led to the problem.
What I saw was an older lady in her ECV ram a man holding a small child in his arms. Then she backed up and rammed him again at full speed in the back of his calfs! Fortunately, he did not drop his child. She then ran under the rope seperating the accessible loading point from the rest of the attraction, and was sitting indignantly waiting for the CMs to approach her.
Perhaps she did not have good control of the rented vehicle, but the ramming of the man in front of her (twice) was obviously deliberate.
It looked like she was just in a hurry even though the line she was in could not move since there was a rope up in front of the man.
It put a serious distaste in everyone's mouth that saw it for her. I wish I knew what the CMs did. As far as I am concerned, she should have been thrown out of the park.
All I could think of was the "public relations" damage she was doing as a disservice to all of those in the parks attempting to use their ECVs as courteously as possible among the "unseeing" and sometimes uncaring crowd.
It is hard enough to get acceptance and acknowlegement without someoneone's complete and udder rudeness ruining it for everyone.
Was she an exception to most wheelchair or ECV users? Of course. Will it matter to uninformed people who saw her display? Probably not, although I do think most people were judging her as an individual and not grouping all users together but you know how it goes sometimes.....
