Rant – feel free to ignore

[Cheshire Figment]

Now, I have a rant of my own! One of my biggest pet peeve's is that they address me (the wife) when it's a question for my husband! My DH is an engineer & of perfectly sound mind! He also sits upright in his chair & does not have any speech difficulty at all. Why is it everywhere we go: WDW, restaurants at home, when were out shopping, etc., do they turn from him & ask me?!!!! At WDW, a lot of young CM's are particularly bad about this! But, we've also encountered it in many other situations also. We've been shopping for computer equipment where my DH is asking these really technical questions (that I'm totally clueless about!) and the salesperson will turn from him & talk to me!! What is up with that!

Judy used to specifically say to those people: "Why not ask him, he's not stupid!" And phrased that way it is a kind of polite insult to the other person, implying that they are stupid. That phrase does hit them hard.

 

[shovan]

Judy used to specifically say to those people: "Why not ask him, he's not stupid!" And phrased that way it is a kind of polite insult to the other person, implying that they are stupid. That phrase does hit them hard.

I love that! I'll have to try it the next time it happens!

 

[Adi12982]

I always left DOUBLE the amount of space I thought I would need, and if DH was pushing me he paid attention to the chair, not the scenary.

But this kinda makes it a double standard - if you are pushing yourself or someone else you have to not only pay attention to where you are going, but to where others are going. BUT people walking are free to stop, cut people off, and not make themselves aware of their surrounding and then are free to claim people are using wheelchairs as battering rams.

My point was more to say hey, you should be paying attention too!