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 know. Conflicting needs are a bugger - and those of us who need to block out the world do still have a duty to remain aware enough of our surroundings to compensate for that. Also, if you'd have grabbed him and he had been trigger-blocking, you'd probably have freaked him out to approximately the same degree as a squished toe anyway...