not disabled enough to watch a film !?!

angelvoice222

Trialia wrote: »

AV, calm down. There are a lot of very rude people on this thread, but you need to develop a thicker skin - if you didn't know it already, there are a lot of people like that in everyday life, too. I'm so tired of dealing with them and being judged by people who know very little of my everyday life that I've put most of the ones on this forum on my 'ignore' list; saves my blood pressure! =P *gives you a virtual hug*

Back to the original point: if you have a CEA card and there were seats free in the area designated for disabled people but the counter staff wouldn't allow you to use one, then yes, I would say you should complain. If they were just already booked, that's different, and unfortunately you have no recourse in that case. Also, just so you know, you can prebook most cinemas online nowadays. I think you can do it with Vue venues as well (I know for certain you can do it with Odeon cinemas).

thanks hun its nt the 1st time ive spoke to you on here before and your as polite and helpfull as before just is beyond me why people come on here to bully, i suppose because we are seen as easy targets. i normaly have a pretty thick skin but im not exactly mentaly well yet so eveyrthing is on top of me
only problem with pre booking is i run the risk of loosing my money, the number of times ive arranged to go out sand had to cancel because soemhting is playing up is unbelivable! so its a case off if i want/need to go out i jut have to go lol

DX2

jetta_wales wrote: »

Do we have to word things acusationaly?

What's wrong with "You must have got that wrong there's no way for a CWP to be issued because of DLA alone so that can't be right. He must have been on other benefits that you didn't know about."

Sorry can we just quit making everything negative and having digs at eachother?

Because it is a downright lie, do we need to pander all the time.

Trialia

angelvoice222 wrote: »

thanks hun its nt the 1st time ive spoke to you on here before and your as polite and helpfull as before just is beyond me why people come on here to bully, i suppose because we are seen as easy targets. i normaly have a pretty thick skin but im not exactly mentaly well yet so eveyrthing is on top of me

Heh, that just shows my short-term memory is really awful, because I don't remember that at all! Sorry, and thank you. I do know how you feel - I am bipolar, and it's hard to stop things getting on top of you when your mental health isn't as good as it could be.

angelvoice22 wrote:

only problem with pre booking is i run the risk of loosing my money, the number of times ive arranged to go out sand had to cancel because soemhting is playing up is unbelivable! so its a case off if i want/need to go out i jut have to go lol

Unfortunately, I have the same problem, so I try not to go to the cinema to see new releases until a couple of weeks after they come out, when it's less crowded. Good luck.

jetta_wales

DX2 wrote: »

Because it is a downright lie, do we need to pander all the time.

Or a missrecolection?

Back to point though, I wish you could pre book at our cinema, it's an odeon but you can only book the back seats which are big fancy ones that cost more and unless I'm in about the third row and fairly central then I can't see the whole screen well enough to follow the film.

There's no option for pre-booking even if you've a dissability that requires you to sit somewhere in particular (probably is for wheelchair users though) but there is more than one type of dissability in the world isn't there.

It's very frustrating.

Trialia

Jetta, that's odd. Seems like it would be a local thing only, then - Manchester Odeon allows pre-booking...

angelvoice222

Trialia wrote: »

Heh, that just shows my short-term memory is really awful, because I don't remember that at all! Sorry, and thank you. I do know how you feel - I am bipolar, and it's hard to stop things getting on top of you when your mental health isn't as good as it could be.



Unfortunately, I have the same problem, so I try not to go to the cinema to see new releases until a couple of weeks after they come out, when it's less crowded. Good luck.

i know a few people with bipolar and see what they have to go thru so i can onli imagine how bad it can get although im not bipolar my condition is fairly similar with the mood swings. only reason we tryed to go is because i NEEDED to get out of the house otherwise i would have completely lost it so we went. didnt even know alice and wonderland was on till we got there lol

VIBondGirl_2

jetta_wales wrote: »

Well good grief what a lot of nonsense! Is it some sort of competition now who's disability entitles them to more than the other person?

Frankly if there's 12 seats (next to spaces) that are reserved for wheelchair users and the film is full but there aren't any wheelchair users there then any tom !!!!!! and harry should be allowed to sit in them and watch the film instead of them remaining empty just for the sake of it.

Thank heavens for some sense! Why should seats be kept indefinitely for the possible arrival of wheelchair users, would it be unacceptable for a wheelchair user to arrive and be told that the screen is full and you'll have to wait to the next one just as anyone else would? It's like the accessible toilet nightmare, man in wheelchair almost breaks my arm in his haste to get in the door of the toilet I was waiting to use, his abusive and unceasing volley when I told him I was queueing is unrepeatable but the message was that the toilet was meant for him in his chair and he should get in there before me - why says I, because you can walk says he, yes but I need the space in there (epilepsy - you try having a fit in a standard cubicle!).

The OP should have spoken to, or had her boyf speak to if she found it hard, the manager and made the point that unless there was an actual booking for those seats that they should have been allowed to use them.

VIBondGirl_2

Seems I don't have the hang of how to use the quote function on this - I am new so apologies, I wasn't trying to plagiarise anyone.

DX2

jetta_wales wrote: »

Or a missrecolection?

Either way it's misleading, next thing you know you will get a thread started saying such and such a poster said people with just DLA should get a CWP, well I haven't had any what do I do about this.

DX2

VIBondGirl wrote: »

jetta_wales wrote: »

Well good grief what a lot of nonsense! Is it some sort of competition now who's disability entitles them to more than the other person?

Frankly if there's 12 seats (next to spaces) that are reserved for wheelchair users and the film is full but there aren't any wheelchair users there then any tom !!!!!! and harry should be allowed to sit in them and watch the film instead of them remaining empty just for the sake of it.

Thank heavens for some sense! Why should seats be kept indefinitely for the possible arrival of wheelchair users, would it be unacceptable for a wheelchair user to arrive and be told that the screen is full and you'll have to wait to the next one just as anyone else would? It's like the accessible toilet nightmare, man in wheelchair almost breaks my arm in his haste to get in the door of the toilet I was waiting to use, his abusive and unceasing volley when I told him I was queueing is unrepeatable but the message was that the toilet was meant for him in his chair and he should get in there before me - why says I, because you can walk says he, yes but I need the space in there (epilepsy - you try having a fit in a standard cubicle!).

The OP should have spoken to, or had her boyf speak to if she found it hard, the manager and made the point that unless there was an actual booking for those seats that they should have been allowed to use them.

So the next time the supermarket car park is full and there are disabled bays are empty it will be okay for any tom !!!!!! and harry to park there.