The triplet stroller I mentioned takes up X space for 3 kids. If someone is taking up that much real estate for 1 kid, chances are they've fallen into self-centered conspicuous consumption and could really downsize.Original poster: So nice of you to provide an evaluation of the legitimacy of the ECV users that were there during your trip. May I ask why you felt the need to do this? Did you feel that people were waiting on pins and needles to see how many loathsome lazy people were abusing the privilege of using ECVs? And just what criteria did you plan to use to evaluate whether or not the ECV users were 'legitimate'?
I'm 52, but look younger (I hope considerably younger). I'm not thin, but I'm not huge, either. I look fit enough to walk, certainly. I dress well, and don't look ill. However, Sjogren's Disease has caused me to suffer from fatigue, incredible muscle and joint pain, and now, has caused my kidneys to start to fail, which brings with it even more symptoms. I also have hypermobility syndrome, and my rheumatologist says I have fibromyalgia. I have arthritis so bad that I have had bones removed from both of my thumbs - otherwise, I wouldn't be able to type this diatribe.
So, if you looked at me on my ECV, your evaluation would probably have been that I didn't need to use one. You would decide that I'm just lazy. You would see no handicap. I would probably be laughing and joking with my walking husband, despite the fact that we've just found out about the kidney thing and we're scared to death. We can't do anything about it at this point, we're still waiting to learn more from the docs, and I'm not going to live my life like a dying person I'm going to live my life like a living person for just as long as I'm alive. Hopefully that will be for quite a few more years. Heck, by the time things get really bad, maybe I'll luck up and get a kidney from some marvelous organ donor. The point is that it's not up to you or anyone else to judge the legitimacy of someone using an ECV. You can't judge by age, or by what the person looks like. "You can't tell by looking."
The same goes for strollers. There are people that use strollers in lieu of wheelchairs. They don't need me to defend them, and I don't have kids, so I won't say much. But people generally make the choices that they make for a reason. If they're not breaking any rules, then leave them alone and go back to enjoying your vacation. Stop stewing over things that aren't worth getting all worked up over. The bus ride back to your resort or over to the park is such a small part of a Disney vacation. Survive it and focus on the bigger picture.
I'm sorry you have to wait while they load my ECV onto the bus, but I can't make it go any faster. I'm sure the bigger stroller people wish that, at the moment that their stroller seems to be taking up the aisle (yes, really, the word aisle is spelled that way), that they could make it shrink, but for whatever reason the bigger stroller works better for them than a smaller stroller or a Disney rental. Regardless, you will get to the park, or you'll get to your resort. Please stop making hateful remarks that you know I can hear (or they can hear). Hurting my feelings over and over won't change anything. It just makes you mean, and most of the time, even though I shouldn't give in to it, it makes me cry. I'm so self conscious about the damned ECV anyway, and I hate making everyone wait while they load it, and people make comments all day long, so it doesn't take much for me to start. I hope the stroller people don't feel that way too.
Anybody staying at a Disney resort should feel like they have the option to use the busses as long as they are following the transportation guidelines. I will not be chased off of the bus, nor should anyone else.
I'd still like to sway people's opinions. I'd like people to enlarge their minds a little and consider that perhaps their way isn't the only way, and that what they think might not always be the absolute truth. Maybe that fellow on the ECV needs to use it. Maybe that lady with the larger stroller has it for a reason. Just maybe.
No just pointed it out because so many on here complain about ECV's and the legitimacy of their users. I was just simply stating that all I saw were 90 year old grandmas using them who could have out done me in the park walking for all I know and so maybe they are not as widely as absued as some claim. SO jump down there off your high horse and quit justifying your use for an EVC because I could really care less about them because they fit nicely into a space on bus and do not take up any additional room on the bus.
(I've always wanted to use that popcorn munching smilie)
I really can't believe that just slipped on thru here with no comments.
I think I'll just sit back with my Honey Pot and see where this goes.
I'd still like to sway people's opinions. I'd like people to enlarge their minds a little and consider that perhaps their way isn't the only way, and that what they think might not always be the absolute truth. Maybe that fellow on the ECV needs to use it. Maybe that lady with the larger stroller has it for a reason. Just maybe.
Okay, but why? Why is it hard for people to understand that some people find rolling nurseries for a single child that blocks the aisle to additional seats on a bus rude? Why can't that be rude? Why does that person's way of thinking need to be changed? Why can't mega stroller family move to the back of the bus, out of the way? Why can't I consider it rude to have a stroller run into me and have the pusher of said stroller not even say, I'm sorry?
