@comedy clubber wrote:
I have many friends who are lawyers, in many states. All of them said to me, their store and their equipment. Is there a record of maintenance on the chairs? Is there a checkout system in place? Does any store employee monitor the people using the carts , by asking if the person is alone? needs help? reaching shelf items can tip the carts, so is that monitored? They have lots of liability, their facility and their equipment. Even a friend who owns a small boutique shop shuddered when she heard my story. She repeated, their facility, their equipment. They are just a business that WANTS customers to think that they care by making donations or sponsoring events. Bottom line is that they DON'T CARE about me, you, or the lamp post. As long as they can get away with honest people like myself doing the right thing, seeking treatment without threats and not hauling them into court, they will get away with their unconscionable behaviors and carelessness.
I think it is so sad that so many of you defend them and, your words not mine, some jerky or ignorant people who ride on these dangerous, in the wrong hands, wheelchair carts. By the way, I have had 23 knee surgeries on my right knee, including two knee replacements of that knee after a serious childhood injury. I used a cart one time and decided that I would find another way to navigate a grocery store. A friend whose father died as a result of Parkinson's Disease said she, being able bodied, tried a cart to see if she should put her dad in one. Scared off by the way the cart worked, she just kept him next to her with a walker. I am not ignorant about disabilities, I just see way too many "handicapped " people running or walking rapidly from their "handicapped" parking spaces. Getting those permits and using the wheelchair carts are way too easy.
@comedy clubber Okay. So--according to you--I should just tough it out, and when my blood pressure drops, I should either lie down in the aisle or pass out there. Because people's opinions and random temporary misfortune are more important than me being able to get groceries. 🙄
And you are right; companies do not care about people. Maybe you should come to terms with that truth, which most people here have known for decades. That's life.
Would you appreciate it if someone monitored your shopping cart usage while you are in the store? Because I was hit pretty hard by a regular shopping cart years ago. A kid drove the thing full-force into my leg while I was talking to someone at the customer service desk. When I turned to look who did it, I saw it was a kid. So I said nothing. I tried to continue my conversation with the customer service person, but the mother of the kid interrupted me and called me rude for not stopping what I was doing to accept her apology. So I excused myself from the conversation I had been having and told her exactly what I thought of her.
You see, some people have a lot of nerve. She had a lot of nerve to act like I was in the wrong for not acknowledging her after she allowed her kid to plow a cart into me. And YOU have a lot of nerve to expect stores to police disabled people. Nobody would ever find it acceptable to police able-bodied people and their use of regular carts. But here you are, advocating that it be done to disabled people. Unbelievable.
Go ahead and contact your lawyer or your congressional reps or whomever you like. I'm sure you will get exactly the response you deserve.
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