Disability laughs in a mobility scooter

iluvmarmite

I dont own a mobility scooter, but I have encountered one in a painful way. I was in M&S and a lady came scootering over to me to ask if I knew where the ladies undies were, I pointed her in the right direction and she pressed the button to go off, trouble is she pressed reverse instead of forward and put her back wheel on my foot, god the pain was horrendous, I was shouting get off my foot (not as politely as that by the way) and she just turned round and said, are you talking to me dearie Im a little bit deaf, all the while her wheel was crushing my foot, a man came running over and tried to get to the forward button so she could move off my foot, the lady took exception to this and started to thump him, she must have thought he was a mugger or something, poor man battled through her fists and managed to press the button and get the thing off my foot.

The lady was mortified when she realised what had been going on, and offered me a fiver in compensation, I refused of course and luckily all I got was a massive bruise and a limp for a few days, nothing broken.

skipsmum

Loved reading this thread especially the pirahnas!
Little DS has been out in his wheelchair and been poked TWICE by children asking if his legs are real..perhaps only people with no legs can have wheelchairs?

linni

I was in my mobility scooter at a local fete and was talking to hubby. I turned round to look at something, then went to grab hubby's arm to show him. I had actually grabbed the arm of a total stranger because hubby had moved away. The man laughed his head off because he was 94 and was flattered I had mistaken him for my hubby, who is in his 50's. Hubby was really embarrassed because everyone else started laughing too. That'll teach him to walk away when i'm stuck in a crowd!!!

zaksmum

When we took hubby's uncle out for the day in his first-time-hired mobility scooter I was amazed how awful his driving of it was, considering he'd been a car driver for over fifty years!

As soon as he took it away from the hire centre he drove it straight at his wife, who was back pedalling frantically to ecape going under it's wheels, then out on the road, we got to the centre part of a dual carriageway, and he started rolling backwards into the traffic! Hubby had to use all his strength to push him forwards again to safety.

Then he discovered tortoise and hare icons on the scooter controls, selected HARE (ie fast) and zoomed away saying he knew a great cafe somewhere nearby. His wife was trying to run alongside, but she's 76, so that wasn't easy. Pedestrians young and old had to leap out of his way and we totally lost him down some side streets.

Found him nearly an hour later, by which time his poor wife was hysterical and had rung her five adult kids in various UK cities to say he was missing...! Never again!

sunnyone

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Well Sunnyone, everytime you post you just happen to show yourself up as a bit of an idiot who gets their facts wrong, that's all. It's embarrassing.

If you were caperble of reading and understanding the law you would discover that I am correct, just because you are a scooter user it dosn't mean that you have to be ingnorant of the law, most scooter users do infact make sure that they comply with all neccisary legislation but there are always some like you that spoil it for them by your ignorance.

Sagaris

If anyone wants to see a Highway Code for mobility scooter users there is one here:

http://www.a1mobility.co.uk/highway-code-mobility-scooters.php

You might be able to relate to some of the illustrations! It's quite good, we had some in work a while ago but they were very popular and soon vanished.

nlj1520

The one bout the piranas...............Brilliant! Laughed out loud!

jakes-mum

I love the looks of pure shock that other shoppers give me in the supermarket im not sure if its the fact they are so caught up in their own business they completely miss me and my scooter until they try reaching over me to get some potatoes or if its because im 32 I must admit though my food shopping has become alot more fun

JJ7

I've only recently started using shopmobility scooters. On my first trip, with daughter and 7yr old grandaughter I was asked if I'd be able to drive it. Oh yes, says I, I use them in supermarkets.
Ours are a bit faster than the supermarket scooters, was the reply - he wasn't kidding. I nearly shot through the glass door. Couldn't find the brake (there isn't one) and this particular one sped up when turning. It sounds awful but it was such fun with my daughter and grandaughter running along side me. They've given me a new ease of life - especially now I use a speed setting a little nearer to the tortoise than the hare- unless of course I'm in a hurry!!

oddies

this thread made me laugh, i have used a mobilty scooter for a good few years but i can walk a little and came out of boots to find a little girl sat on my scooter she thought it was one of them kids rides you see in most shopping centers :rotfl::rotfl:

i was off into town on it when there was quite a few teenages going to school one shouted blimey what's she doing in that she must only be about 40 so i snapped back that's because i am around 40 :rotfl:

i was on mobilty scooter just minding my own when all of a sudden the woman in front of me bent down to tie her shoelaces well i just could not stop in time and bang!!! right into her backside god knows how she managed to stay upright.. the look on her face was priceless ( i did say sorry but it was not my fault honest

another lady stepped right in foront of me and shouted you should have a hooter on that.. so i snapped back you should get your head out the clouds !!!:rotfl:

normally i have to dodge all and sundry and i am sure i am invisible