Wheelchair 1 : Toes Nil

[davidgillon]

This afternoon in Rochester, there was a queue for the ATM stretching right across the pavement, with a gap just about big enough for the chair between the guy at the machine and the guy next in line (with earphones in).

'Excuse me!'

No reaction.

'Excuse me!!'

No reaction.

Bugger this, I go for the gap.

I'm genuinely not sure whether I mis-judged it or he moved his foot, but there was a decided crunching feeling.

I cast "I did say excuse me, twice!!" over my shoulder as I rolled  away, but it's not really possible to look behind you and push at the same time, so I can't say what the reaction looked like, but there was definitely some muttering going on that probably wasn't pro-wheelchair user - tough!

Comments

[thamesynne]

I'm torn here. If it was you vs knobhead, and I hope it was, I'm with you all the way. But I can't help feeling that it could have been me - earphones in and up loud enough to block the world's anxiety-triggering noise out, off in my own little world and not realising what's right under my nose... and limping home muttering various uncomplimentary things about how even people with visible disabilities have it in for those of us with invisible ones. :/