metivier said:
TOTALLY agree with this statement. Try taking a stroller (particularly a double stroller) to a mall nowadays, especially during the holiday shopping season rush. I try my best to stay way to the right, keep a steady pace, not "race" in front of people, etc., but I always encounter some bozo who wants to "race and cut" in front of my two children in the stroller like it's a game or something. Sheesh, people -- I'm pushing a stroller -- not warming up for Richard Petty's Driving Experience!!!!
I couldn't agree more! We took our stroller to Epcot during the Food and Wine festival and were amazed at how often people would cut off our stroller, tripping over the front wheels in their haste to get to the next beer. This caused the stroller to suddenly stop, jolting the passengers. Many of these people were tipsy, so that may explain their inattentiveness. People should realized that the jogger-style double strollers do NOT turn on a dime, they have to be tipped backwards slightly and rotated on the back.
As to the OP, I hope you and your children stay healthy and never have to use an
ECV or wheelchair. Handicapped children should be given a priority in lines and on busses. It's a huge pain in the neck to move the kids on and off those things, so any advantage given to their exhausted caretakers should be offered without grudge.
As for the bus seats, I can see both sides of the arguement, since people who wait for their own seat, bypasssing earlier crowded busses, are not inclined to give up their seat for another person, no matter how needy the other person is. I get that. But, Disney should stop the practice of packing people into the aisles. It's not safe and it would avoid this whole issue. The one time in the dozens and dozens of bus rides we were in Disney with 3 kids under the age of 4, one sleeping, a cumbersome double stroller, diaper bags.... only one person offered us a seat, and so reluctantly it was pathetic. I took it with the sleeping baby and another lodged between my knees. My poor son, only 4, had to fend for himself while my husband handled all the stuff. Wouldn't you know that was the one time the bus lurched forward and my son fell down. Not one person offered up a seat for him, even after he fell. I was stunned by the lack of courtesy! Stunned, because this is NOT NORMAL on a Disney bus!!! Should I have waited for another bus? Perhaps. But the kids had hit the wall and like everyone else on this bus, we were anxious to get back to our hotel. The inconsistency of Disney busses only contributes to overcrowding, since it can be 20 minutes or more till the next bus arrives. We'd already waited a long time and believe me, I wans't waiting another 20!! And, I'll be honest here, I'd become accustomed to the manners and courtesies of Disney bus riders that I didn't give it a second's thought. Since then, I don't take manners and courtesy for granted. I just assume I'll have to stand and will chose to wait or proceed accordingly. Or, as an earlier poster suggested, I take the car. Now my kids are older and we don't have the need. Life is easier to maneuver, thank God. We always let people with strollers sit now, a payback to all the courtesies we enjoyed over the years while our kids were young, and because I've walked in their shoes I know EXACTLY how exhausting it is to load and unload and collapse and carry that darned stroller as well as ride herd on the kids. I don't think most of those who refuse to give up their seats view themselves as selfish, but see those who are very young, old or pregnant as selfish for needing the extra assistance. I wish them well in their advanced years. I hope they enjoy standing in the aisles with their bad knees and aching back. What goes around comes around. Here's hoping that it will be manners, and not selfishness, that circulates.
