I’m just in it for the parking
The only negative thing about our Christmas week trip to Walt Disney World were the supposedly handicapped people.
At Disney, you can rent a power chair for $69.00 for the day. That seems pricey, but that chair acts as a dream fastpass, allowing you to advance to the front of the line with an unlimited number of your friends/family. Apparently the word is out on that because there were countless people who had no noticeable disability riding in wheelchairs. Then you have your usual overweight lazy people who are perfectly capable of walking but would rather sit on their fat @$$ and be pushed around.
If you had a disability, would you pick Disney’s busiest week of the year to visit? I wouldn’t. I would come a few weeks earlier or later when there are few tourists and plenty of room to move around. That way, I wouldn’t inconvenience myself or others.
If you were confined to a wheelchair, would you really be interested in riding the Rock ‘n Roller Coaster or Expedition Everest? Those rides certainly would not improve you ailment.
Now I have no problem with people who are truly disabled. They have just as much right to enjoy the Jungle Cruise as I do. But when normal people have to wait two hours for the ride, the disabled people should as well. Make them wait, THEN accommodate them. If I can wait in line with a two year old and a tired five year old, then you can wait in line with a broken leg. At the very least, Disney should require them to show a little blue sticker (like you need for parking) before advancing them to the front of the line.
January 9th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I have no comment.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
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February 6th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Hey …
Just to let you know, if you saw me you’d think that I was just being lazy. Because I am fat and there isn’t anything VISIBLE that’s wrong. But I have a bullet sitting in my central nervous system that has caused me to develop perpheral neuropathy, sciatica, interstitial cystitis, the bullet broke my hip bone and gave me arthritis and I also have bladder and muscle spasms due to misfiring nerves. I have to walk using either a cane or a walker, on really bad pain days I have to use a wheelchair. You try not being able to walk for any distance without pain and not gaining weight.
Things aren’t always what they APPEAR!! Very few disabling conditions are that visible. People like you are one reason I tend to hide in my home… I get judged.
And by the way… anyone can use the fastpass system as Disney, maybe you should look it up. For a disabled person to use the handicap entrances at Disney now they are supposed to get a GAC at customer relations and they have to bring a letter from their Doctor stating their medical conditions AND what they can and can not do.
As for waiting in the sun, some of us are on medication that IF we did wait in the sun we’d pass out.
Enjoy your good health, I hope you never get a medical condition where you get judged like you’re judging other folks.