Helping?

[davidgillon]

Shopping run to Asda today, so tried it with their clip-on trolley for the chair, which actually worked quite well bar the fact the huge front castor on the beast keeps binding with the rear wheel on the trolley every time I change direction.

Anyway gets to access aisle (and why has that sprouted a bollard in the middle since last time? though at least it was manned this time), waits until I get up to conveyor, and heave slab of beer (20 cans) onto it as first thing

'Oh, can I help?' says gent in front noticing this.

'It's fine, I've got it' I tell him. Everything else is lightweight.

Despite this he leans across, picks the beer up and moves it two feet further forward. Then smiles at me.

'Um, it's a conveyor?'

I'm sure he thought he was helping, but really?

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Oh yes, really.

Interactions like that tend to support the grim theory that nondisabled people have booklets for the "nice to cripple" tasks they accomplish. Your fellow saw an easy way to get 20 stamps at once!

[davidgillon]

ROFL! (But probably true).

[sunflowerinrain]

Dozy and irritating, but not actually dangerous, as some interventions can be! Sometimes one wonders how we humans survive.

[davidgillon]

but not actually dangerous

There's a reason I'm keeping the handles of my chair tucked out of the way!

[sunflowerinrain]

Mine too, when possible, but they are used to hook on a weekend bag while travelling, or shopping bag while shopping.

It's horrifying how many helpful people grab at wheelchairs (or one's body), and I've had several accidents that way. However, there seems to be a gradual change in attitudes and awareness of the helpful. I now rarely wonder if I should have accepted the offer of someone to fit my wheels with pointy metal à la Boudicca, as he had put on his mother's wheelchair!

[davidgillon]

Yeah, I had someone try to lift the chair I'd hired by the armrest last summer, no 'should I?', just grab, which would likely have torn it off, so I've eliminated everything grabbable from the beast as a precaution.