Gah, some people ...

[davidgillon]

... are so determined to 'help' you have to beat them off with a stick!

I was heading back to the car from Rochester High Street* - and was already irritated because Medway Council have the footpaths blocked with stalls again, including on top of the kerb cut I specifically complained about last time - and as I turned off to go up in front of the cathedral I noticed a guy looking at me (at the time I assessed him as a drunk, though I may have been wrong). So I start pushing up the slope, pass the cafes, but stop at the cathedral noticeboard when I notice there's a poster for Show of Hands. Almost instantly he's there "Are you lost?" No, just reading the damn poster.

10 yards further "Do you want me to push?" And when I half-turn he's bearing down on the chair arms outstretched. "No!"

There's a sort of harumph,and "Well, I'm walking up by the Vines".

Oh, great, that's where I'm parked, so I have to let him get ahead of me, Fortunately he stopped to peer into the cathedral gardens and I snuck past when he wasn't looking.

If it's not the council making Rochester an obstacle course, it's the people!

* I had the burger for lunch. It now comes with 'bacon jam' - it's just as well they told me what it was, because I wouldn't have guessed otherwise. There probably was a very faint taste of bacon, but so faint you needed the hint. Plus what I think were deep-fried, battered pieces of onion. I'n not an onion fan, and positively loathe fried onions, so the fact I ate them at all is probably a point in their favour. But being honest, I'd have preferred a slice of  tomato to both of them.

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

Oh god, the helpiness of abled people... I wish they knew how much easier our lives would be if we knew we wouldn't have to worry about it any time we're in public.

[davidgillon]

This!

So tempted to take the push handles off the chair, but I use them myself at times.

[cosmolinguist]

I'm now imagining some kind of "Do Not Cross" police-tape on the handles, to help people get the message. :)

[capri0mni]

"If you cross this line, there may be a murder" type thing?

[davidgillon]

"Do-gooder found severely beaten with wheelchair footplate"

[cesy]

I have tried that kind of red and white stripy tape. It doesn't stop people.

[davidgillon]

Argh!

[lilysea]

10 yards further "Do you want me to push?" And when I half-turn he's bearing down on the chair arms outstretched. "No!"

There's a sort of harumph,and "Well, I'm walking up by the Vines".

Oh, for fuck's sake! :(