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| leeds Member Since: 28 Dec 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 8582  
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Personally I think people who abuse abuse things designed to help the less able people are contemptible Seeing a young apparently fit man jump out of a builders van drivers seat after parking in a disabled bay as he was too lazy to walk an extra 15 metres and I mentally put him in the ignorant oik grade.
Now I do not normally post links to newspapers etc but this link shocked me. Yes some people have taken being a complete A hole to a completely new level. Guide dogs are extremely even temperament dogs which are trained to an extremely high level and when they are working they concentrate 100% on the job in hand which is guiding and ensuring the safety of their owner. I used to have the privilege of exercising a guide dog at times and when off the lead they are playful as any other dog. On a normal lead they are well behaved. In the working harness they are totally dedicated to guiding their owner. How people can abuse and or ignore an obvious blind person and their guide dog is beyond me. Where has respect and consideration for other people gone. Takes being a complete A hole to a completely new level. Brendan |
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5th Jan 2017 8:52pm |
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| discomog Member Since: 09 May 2015 Location: Notts/Lincs Border Posts: 2529 
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Yes Brendan, unfortunately there are plenty of A holes wandering about and as your newspaper link indicates it is just beyond belief that people would not rush to help.
On the other hand, a few years ago I was walking along a road and noticed someone with a guide dog approach a pedestrian crossing on the opposite of the road and decided that once I got nearer the crossing I would cross over the road and ask if I could help. Just as I was approaching, a red post office van stopped at the crossing, the postman got out, left his door wide open and walked up to the man and his guide dog, took his elbow and walked him across the road. Quietly got back into his van and drove off. It just goes to prove that we still have Angels but we have to put up with an ever increasing population of A holes as well. Defender 90XS SW Mini Countryman Cooper S Morgan Plus 8 |
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5th Jan 2017 9:13pm |
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| grafty99 Member Since: 15 Aug 2012 Location: North Devon Posts: 4786 
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It's nice to hear there are still good people around too.
My aunt has lost most of her sight to macula degeneration - when she was recovering from the operation that saved what's left of her sight, she needed a magnifying glass to read labels on clothes or the menu in a cafe etc. In one particular place she was reading the menu and the waitress said " I see we've got Sherlock Holmes to dinner" Needless to say the manager couldn't have done more to apologise - free meal whatever you want from the menu etc. But that's not the point, people are just so disengaged, disinterested and just plain selfish. I don't think they realise just how much of an a hole they really are! When I see them I look at them and then let karma do the rest. Also I try and balance out the a holes by being extra nice  2002 90 Td5 Station Wagon
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5th Jan 2017 11:13pm |
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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443  
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My eldest boy, now nearly 20, is high up on the autistic scale, outwardly he looks fairly much like a normal teenager but he has very limited language, little sense of danger and needs a lot of prompting to carry out a "normal" daily life.
Yes he has a blue badge, allright his mobility is fairly good, it's his fine motor skills that let him down but the main reason for the badge is for safety. Apart from him having little concern for others peoples feelings, a common trait of autism, he'll swing his door open unless pre-empted action is taken, he'll just walk out into traffic, These are just a few of the everyday things where being able to park in a wider bay or somewhere where it's safe plus selfishly, convenient, there's enough stresses looking after my boy as it is as a single parent. To be quite honest I rarely use it, it's more like having a trump card that you keep back for those needy situations, it's the look that you'll get from the judgemental types seeing the dirty Defender parked in a Disabled Space, two teenagers and me get out looking "normal", no wheelchair or obvious sign of a disability. I am fairly immune to the snide comments allthough there are times when it's been a trying time that I'll rise to them and answer back, I've had close on 20 years of the backhanded comments such as "Keep away from that boy Tarquin, you don't want to catch what he's got!""Don't play with him he's weird". Comments like these are what my ex-wife couldn't cope with and along with Josh's constant needs prompted her to walk away. As a parent carer you don't have the "official" looking badges that paid carers have, you don't have any tangible evidence to say that you are in a public convenience cubicle wiping a 20 year olds backside because he can't do it himself, not because you're a pervert. You're the one cutting up a meal in a resturaunt for him as all he'll do is shove the big lumps in his mouth with his fingers, it does get tiresome to be the object of everyones stares and whispers but hey ho, I think I lead a much fuller life than the small minded judgemental types. |
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6th Jan 2017 12:33pm |
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| agentmulder Member Since: 16 Apr 2016 Location: Outer Space Posts: 1324 
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Ugh...
Change of mind.. Please delete thanks Solved the bowel problem, working on the consonants... |
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6th Jan 2017 8:19pm |
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| JR Member Since: 07 Dec 2012 Location: Auchtermuchty Posts: 532  
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In the early 1980's we used to have a blind lady (with a white stick rather than a guide dog) staying in Auchtermuchty and we were both climbing the steps to the bank so I held the door open for her just as I would do for anyone of any age or gender. I got an absolute b*ll*cking from her in full view of everyone in the bank, I was enormously embarrassed! She did explain what, for her, was wrong and I admit it made perfect sense, she had memorised the lie of the land based on a closed door so when I held it open she couldn't judge where she was, and as she pointed out the door was closed far, far more than it was open! She didn't have to give me such a b*ll*cking though!! In 1998 I was resident Off Road Instructor at Knockhill Racing Circuit, Dunfermline, Fife and my duties also including Instructing on the Skid Pan. A nice PR thing for us was that the MDP (Ministry of Defence Police) Driver Training Unit based at the Faslane Submarine Base used to use our facility for Skid Correction Training (using their own Instructors), we just welcomed them and did the teas/coffees. So one such visit had 2 cars turn up and I went out to welcome the 6 trainees and the usual 2 instructors, fine. I walked them over towards our building and held the door open for them as I did for any guests, this is where it all went wrong! Of the 6 Police Constables there was one very well built rugby type female who was first up the steps and she took ENORMOUS exception to my holding open the door just because she was a woman!!! Oh yes, and there was a couple just finishing a coffee after their course had finished! All I could do was think WTF and shrink into my shoes! I was brought up to be a Gentleman and treat everyone with equal respect and opening doors for people has always been a part of that. I have always felt that the Police, and other services, would act in a similar manner in their normal dealings with the general public, however I don't see this female (she was NO lady!) helping to improve the way the Police are thought of by us civvies! I am still very close friends with the Senior Instructor that day and we still cannot believe that female cop! |
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7th Jan 2017 3:44pm |
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