Would you do this? ECV related

[arminnie]

This thread is on the rumor board:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1170140
Quote:

On a recent afternoon at Walt Disney World, Dennis Robles was cruising around on an electric "mobility scooter" that the park usually rents out to people with disabilities. Mr. Robles doesn't have a problem walking -- he says he was simply saving up energy for late-night dancing.

"I'm pretty healthy," says the 37-year-old truck driver from Brooklyn, N.Y. "Just lazy, I guess."

The power scooter is an increasingly ubiquitous sight, with an estimated 1.2 million in use nationwide. But while the $1,000-plus vehicles have been hailed as a boon for the infirm and the elderly, they are now finding a new constituency: able-bodied people who simply don't feel like walking.
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[JadenLayne]

To save my energy for dancing? No I wouldn't. I have had to use one in the past for an unexpected reason though. I have to admit it was really enjoyable but NO I wouldn't use one just for the heck of it.

 

[escape]

No, I wouldn't do this. As long as I am healthy and able to walk I would not dream of tying one up when there are others that need it.

 

[Buckalew11]

I think I am too thankful that I am able to get up and walk to ever do that.

I think that sounds like something my mother would have told me as a kid. "Be glad you have 2 legs that work and you can use them."

Obviously I have a problem with someone using one who doesn't really need to. The parks only have some many of them to rent out. I'd hate to think of an able bodied person renting one and the possibility of someone who needs one wouldn't have access to one because of someone else's laziness.
And then there are people like my dad who could use one these days and won't.

 

[FergieTCat]

I visited Disneyland with a torn achilles tendon. I wouldn't even use one then, although I deeply regretted it by the afternoon.

 

[CathrynRose]

Want the truth?

If they passed 'em out at the gate for free, heck yeah!!! I certainly wouldnt say no.

Im lazy too! AND My mom had to get one of those when she broke her ankle and when the park was closing, and most people had already headed down Main Street we stopped for some ice cream and people watched.

I hopped on her scooter.... and kept going back and forth - past my mom, and my boys waving and saying 'Im a parade, Im a parade'

Theyre fun.

 

[Crankyshank]

Are you kidding? I cut up my foot pretty badly before our Oct trip and got the worst blisters on top of it - so bad I could barely walk. I refused to even entertain the thought of an ECV or a wheelchair. I just sat down when the pain got too bad.

It's bad enough being heavy and walking around Disney. I'd be mortified being another fat person using a ECV that doesn't really need one.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

Well you CAN rent ECV's from other companies in the Orlando area. Some will even deliver them to you at the resort. We saw a whole family with them when we were there last Saturday. I do think they are a nuisance though when there are too many of them around. I can understand NEEDING one, I do not understand using one just because you WANT one.

 

[NMAmy]

I hopped on her scooter.... and kept going back and forth - past my mom, and my boys waving and saying 'Im a parade, Im a parade'

Theyre fun.

Okay, well, THAT does sound like fun. My sister and I did have wheelchair races with my dad's chairs when he wasn't using them one day when we were bored. We were around the ages of oh---50 and 40 then.

But, no, I wouldn't use one. My dad lost his leg and was in a wheelchair for several years. I don't like the reminder--plus getting around in a wheelchair or an ECV just isn't that easy in a congested area (speaking as the person who was always recruited to push one around.) It seems like more trouble than it's worth. I'd also worry that someone who really needed it wouldn't be able to get it.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Absolutely not. That is beyond lazy and pathetic.

I use a manual wheelchair because of paraplegia. I could very easily nix my wheelchair and use an ECV in WDW instead of pushing myself. No way, Jose. I have arms that are strong and work just fine and as long as they do I will push a manual chair.

Be thankful for what you have, people. I would love to be able to walk around WDW and be exhausted from walking all day.

 

[disykat]

Nope. I would only use one if I had a disability or injury that made it necessary.

I would think it would be a pain to maneuver around - I'm sure walking is much easier especially in busy areas.

 

[hiwaygal]

While I have considered using them at different places (I have a really bad back) I usually feel too self conscious and don't want to make someone who has a greater need go without.

 

[Virgo10]

What a moron that guy is. I use to rent them when I vacationed at Disney. Let me tell you, the scooters can be annoying at times. It is very difficult maneuvering those things onto the buses. I had several drivers tell me I should have been giving lessons. Still there were times when I was really tired that I'd get it wrong and there's nothing like trying to park a scooter when all you want to do is sleep and have 50 people starring at you.

I finally got to the point where I would plan my visits to the MK, AK and WS for the mornings so that I wouldn't have a scooter snafu. As for MGM and Future World, I'd do them scooterless and just grin and bear the discomfort that night.

If he was renting them at the parks and using one just because he was too lazy, well, shame on him. I always rented off site. Better rates and it was yours to use when you needed it.

They're a God send for those that need them but to do what this guy is doing just blows my mind. BTW, never in all the times I used a scooter did I get a negative remark or any kind of a "look".

 

[Buckalew11]

Absolutely not. That is beyond lazy and pathetic.

I use a manual wheelchair because of paraplegia. I could very easily nix my wheelchair and use an ECV in WDW instead of pushing myself. No way, Jose. I have arms that are strong and work just fine and as long as they do I will push a manual chair.

Be thankful for what you have, people. I would love to be able to walk around WDW and be exhausted from walking all day.

Well, there you go...if someone who could easily use a motorized one chooses to use her arms that work instead, then mom was right. Lindsay, it could not have been said any better than how you said it.

And Jenn, your last sentence also went through my mind as I was typing my first response.

 

[MushyMushy]

It's disgusting!

My feet and ankles are SHOT and they'll never be well, but I can walk. By the end of a day at WDW, I'm in so much pain that I can barely handle it, but I'd never use an ECV for the same reasons Crankyshank mentioned.

 

[lsyorke]

Want the truth?

If they passed 'em out at the gate for free, heck yeah!!! I certainly wouldnt say no.

Im lazy too! AND My mom had to get one of those when she broke her ankle and when the park was closing, and most people had already headed down Main Street we stopped for some ice cream and people watched.

I hopped on her scooter.... and kept going back and forth - past my mom, and my boys waving and saying 'Im a parade, Im a parade'

Theyre fun.

Please tell me your not serious!

 

[Blondie]

I think saving up energy to dance is the lamest excuse I've ever heard! He was just too lazy to come up with a better excuse and too lazy to walk around the parks that day.

 

[Toby'sFriend]

unless I had a physical need, absolutely not. They are mobility aids, not rides.

It is also very rude to others around. I have no problem with people who need them using them, but they block the sidewalks, are difficult to manuever around, and cause congestion.

 

[disneynutt1225]

Be thankful for what you have, people. I would love to be able to walk around WDW and be exhausted from walking all day.

My mother says the same thing every day (though not about WDW). She's in a wheelchair because of MS. Granted, she can walk around the house with the aid of a walker or cane, but when she leaves the house she requires her wheelchair.

When I was 15ish, I had an ovarian cyst that the doctor was worried was going to burst when I was in Florida on vacation. I had to use a wheelchair my entire trip. It was an experience I'll never forget, and hope to never have to go through again. I have tremendous respect for the people who don't have a choice in the matter, I'm very thankful I do.

I'm terribly lazy, but I would never in a million years consider renting an ECV or a wheelchair because of my laziness. Heck, even when my back is bothering me, I just take it easy and take extra breaks.

I read this article the other day in the newspaper and to say I was disgusted is putting it mildly.

 

[paigevz]

I don't have time........those things are slow........we like to move it, move it at WDW!