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Sadly there are people who make you wonder. While still living in AZ hubby and I took the kids to see the rodeo they had folding chairs by the rail for handicapped people, spaces for carts and wheelchairs, etc. A woman came in a cart assisted by someone working the event. She parked her cart long ways to keep it out of the isle and sat in a chair. She told the man someone would be joining her, he said they couldn't reserve a seat there, he hoped the person came before that area was full. We were only a row or two away and it was early so we could hear the conversation. The seats filled in that area by the time the person showed up and they said she'd have to move her cart if she wanted them to put a chair there. Well, she moved it alright! She got up and jerked the cart several times with her hands just enough to make room for another chair. Those of us watching were shocked, the man next to me said "you can't tell me she needs that chair if she can do that!" I had to agree those things weigh alot! Did anyone see the overweight woman on Tyra Banks that is trying to eat herself into one of those carts? She cried because she's still mobile, she wants to get so heavy she can't walk. :eek: |
Almost forgot this. Last week I was at the grocery store and saw a man walking to his car with a cane. He was older but not really old, and the poor guy could only take two or three steps at a time and they were more like little shuffles, not steps. He literally was moving an inch at a time. I thought I'd ask him if he wanted a ride to his car but he was parked close and made it to his car before I had my trunk loaded. I remember thinking he needed a cart but probably was one who refused to use it. |
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Sometimes, I see older women pushing their carts HOME through some of the bordering neighborhoods on the way home from where our grocery store is, and they're like already 1/4 mile from the store :(, so I offer them a ride. Often times, they don't speak English so it's pretty funny as we try to communicate directions to their house...and we're both sort of laughing at all our hand gestures. :) |
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That was so very kind of you to consider asking to help this elder to his vehicle. That's what makes this world a better place - helping others has to start with a kind thought :thumbup: |
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I guess I am more open to the idea that just because I can't see it doesn't mean it's not there because of our son. He is ADD and has a non verbal learning disorder. The ADD was not diagnosed till after 5th grade and the learning disorder wasn't till his Soph year after they did further testing. By then I had a terrible time getting him the help he needed in school because the teachers had already formed an opinion that he was a "bad" kid. Others couldn't understand that just because he didn't limp, had good speech etc that there was anything wrong. Why did he need an IEP and special ed classes???? Trust me just because you can't see it or hear it doesn't mean it's not there. |
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I actually shop at Walmart in West Plano. Get this, they sell Sushi. Chattiesmom, I'm sorry people have given you a hard time. Thats not right.. |
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Our Wallyworld doesn't sell Sushi, but Kroger has a Sushi Chef :rolleyes::rolleyes: |
I've been on both sides of the fence too - I've delt with rude cart riders and now my husband has to ride a cart in large stores like Walmart. He is not allowed to do that much walking due to a severe heart and lung problem. But trust me, he looks perfectly fine - no outward signs of impairment at all. He's only 60 so he doesn't even look old and decrepit! :rolleyes: When he needs something off the shelf - he just gets off the cart and gets it. That is not a problem for him and he is allowed to do that much physical exertion. Believe me though, he gets so many disgusted looks from people who probably think he is perfectly fine. Often I walk beside him in the cart and we talk so that people know we are together. I think they are more tolerant because they realize he would be walking with me, if he could. If he does not use the cart, he has to use oxygen, and that really bothers him because people do stare a lot if you have a hose up your nose! LOL! When he first started using the cart, he was so tired of people acting like he shouldn't be using it, that he wore his oxygen while in the cart. Then people just looked so pitifully at him - and he did look pretty pitiful - that he doesn't do that anymore! Anyway, I agree that there are rude people on both sides of the fence and it is difficult to know what to do or how to react. |
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How dare that lady! I am sorry but that is a pet peeve of mine, one that really makes my blood boil, and I know I shouldn't worry about other people but I get so mad. I'm sorry but "morbidly obese"people like the lady you mentioned, NEED TO WALK. Get your butt up and WALK, if there is no medical reason why you are that overweight, then the reason you got to that weight in the first place is because you are LAZY! I am a tad bit over weight myself, about 15 lbs, but you don't see me complaining at JCPenney that they don't have a pair of jeans that fit my fat ass and acting like they owe me something because I AM overweight. I know this sounds shallow and hurtful to some, but its just my opinion. I had an uncle that was just soooo lazy he could barely even walk from one of the house to the other without huffing and puffing because he was morbidly obese, and that just made me sick. There was no reason for his weight gain, just laziness and fast food all the time. |
The lady on Tyra was crying because she wasn't as heavy as she wanted to be. She wants to ride the cart! I can't remember if she was or wanted to be 500 pounds, I'd have to ask our daughter who saw the entire show. I can't imagine why you would want to be in that state. Sounds like some serious counceling is needed for her. That being said I come from a heavy family, sometimes weight gain is not as easy to control when you have medical issues that cause you to gain treated by drugs that cause you to gain. Especially when you have the family fat gene to start with. I know what it's like to be heavy and treated like crap because of it. So I am careful how I treat heavy people as well. Believe me most heavy people are pretty sad, lonely and depressed before anyone says anything to them or about them that they can hear. |
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