LindsayDunn228 said:
Sue, just curious and you don't have to answer. How old is your daughter? The reason I ask is if my mother had said that to someone after I turned, I dunno, 12 or so, I would have been pretty embarrassed. I can't stand up for myself and don't need her to speak for. Not flaming, just curious.
My DD is 20, and one of the reasons I don't say anything is that I don't really want to draw more attention to the situation. My DD can't talk (although she does understand people quite well). When people do/say things she doesn't like, she usually ignores them.
disneyfreakjackie said:
No flames here!! I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU!!! But . . . I think the people in the wheelchairs should wait in line like everyone else. When their turn comes to get on the bus, they should get on first, but shouldn't be allowed to CUT in front of others!!! We watched a women try and try to ride her
scooter into the bus, but couldn't get it straight enough to ride up the ramp. Well what does she do?? She gets off and pushes the scooter up the ramp!!! I was livid!!!
I don't understand, how can people with wheelchairs wait in line with everyone else and get on first when their turn comes?
If they get to the front of the line after waiting in line, chances are good that the bus will have too many people on it for them to get on easily because of all the people who were already on the bus (even if there was room for lots more passengers.) And, since they have to get on at the back, boarding would need to be interupted at the front door while they went to the back door, the driver put down the lift/ramp and loaded the wheelchair onto the bus. After that was done, then people could start loading at the front again.
The reason that the Disney buses board people with wheelchairs and
ecvs first is that it's more
efficient to do it that way. It's easier and faster to load a wheelchair or
ecv onto the bus the less people there are on the bus.
And, the woman who pushed the ecv up the ramp should probably have practiced backing up before venturing out on the ecv, but it's not easy to back those things (especially up an incline), so since she couldn't back it on, she did what she could to get it on the bus (probably as quickly as possible). Why that would make anyone livid is not something I can understand (although I can understand why the woman having to
push the ecv up the ramp might have been a little ticked off).