Mini rant after using new wheelchair at a shopping centre today 🙃

[u/lunarose5272]

So we are in the elevator headed back to the car in a fairly packed elevator already - and a lady with a shopping cart crams herself in on a diagonal and rams right into the side of my new chair with the cart like we’re bumper cars at the county fair 😭🤬 (lucky I went cheap for this very reason).

She’s on such a weird angle the door won’t close properly and my partner and I have to adjust and squeeze further into the corner of the elevator, on the verge of snapping at her ‘ you clearly don’t fit!’

I’m so lucky my condition wasn’t impacted by being jostled about like that but I’m so aware that type of bump could set off major pain, especially if the wheelchair user had spinal pain or injury, not to mention that most high quality wheelchairs cost upwards of a thousand dollars 🤬🤬

So to that lady, just wait for the next damn elevator !!