Aladora
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2011
1) Not just women, but men.
2) I was at the Whispering Canyon men's room last week.
3) The handicap stall was locked, and I could not enter.
4) I knocked on the door and said very loudly, "I hope you are handicapped, because I sure as heck am !!!"
5) Being in wheelchair, I could not use another stall.
6) When this middle-aged guy walked out, I said in a loud voice, "PRAISE GOD, IT IS A MIRACLE. HE HAS BEEN HEALED!"
7) After I was done, I rolled my chair past his table, and announced to his group that I was so happy his handicap is now cured!
8) Yes, I got a dirty look from him as I explained my comment to his table, but I did not care !!!
9) Some people are just so rude by using handicapped stalls when true handicapped people cannot.
NOTE: Some people have said they want their kid with them. Well, a rude reason and not an excuse the ADA recognizes. Let's have some courtesy for those that truly need the enlarged stall.
1) true.
2) not important
3) that means someone else was using it before you got there.
4) rude. Knocking once to make sure that there is actually someone in there is fine, doors sometimes get locked behind guests but it is never appropriate to say anything like you claim to have said.
5) fair enough, but you still need to wait your turn.
6) who cares the age of the person using the washroom before you and who cares if he is able to walk.
7) rude rude rude. If you had come up to my table and starting talking like this I would politely ask you to leave and then move on to asking not so politely and then move on to making you leave. Being in a wheelchair is no excuse for being a jerk.
8) you deserved every second of that dirty look, and more.
9) Yes, some people are just so rude...especially those who feel the need to police who can or cannot use larger stalls in the washroom.
NOTE: Larger stalls are NOT legislated as to who can or cannot use them so the ADA has no bearing on this discussion. The only legislation about them relates to their construction, NOT their use.
As opposed to a HC parking spot where it is an official designation and it is against the law to use it, larger washroom stalls are not officially designated as such and so anyone can use them.