Bloody people

[clapham_gull]

I've had quite an enlightening few weeks after my girlfriend damaged her ankle after a fall down the stairs.

She's been struggling on crutches for last few weeks in a lot of pain and I'm been accompanying her around London - getting to work, and tonight getting her on a train to Liverpool.

Complete nightmare this evening, trying to get to the train when hundreds of people are trying to push past her.

( We'd been told the platform early, but they didn't open our gate, letting people into another gate with access to the platform before us. Long story, but any "advantage" we'd had was gone, and the train she was getting on was unreserved seating. Fair play to Virgin trains, they put her in first class when I got help. )


Anyway...


I'm been astounded by the selfishness of people and on a few occasions the kindness of others.

I seen young people look at her then quickly drop their head into their newspapers rather then offer her a seat on the tube.

I had people "tutting" because they've been held up walking behind her.

But I've seen some older people instantly offer their seat up, or sincerely apologise when they've accidently bumped into her.

More than anything, I think I've observed poeple so wrapped up in themselves that they don't bother to notice others around them.

It's also made me think about my own actions, and realise what a bloody difficult life it must be for disabled people or people with mobility problems.

 

[Starry]

I could write pages and pages about idiotic people. Anastasia was in a wheelchair and we had oxygen canisters and a feeding pump attached to her a lot of the time and the Joe Bloggs public made it as difficult as possible for us to get around.

Simple things like taking her brother to school became a military operation.

People suck. I hope your g/friend feels better soon.

 

[Beach Hut]

When Junior broke his leg the Theatre Royale in Brighton could not accomodate him to watch "The Witches" with and end of aisle seat.

FFS how hard is that to get everyone to shift along one - does open your eyes up to the disability issue and how hard it must be.

 

[NMH]

"throw the gimps down the well......."

 

[pasty]

I sympathise with you. A couple of years ago I had a knee operation and was on crutches for a while. Even simple basic politeness like people holding a door open was non-existant. People either didn't see, or chose not to see, I was struggling around on crutches and continually barged past me, pushed into me and tutted at me, exactly as you say. A real eye opener.