Just back...whopper of a SGT

[reendan]

I have a genetic brittle bone disease that makes my bones like glass...I fracture so easily that I cannot walk the parks for a week without coming home with multiple fractures in my feet. So to prevent this I rent an ECV. I was in The Seas waiting for a friend to take a picture of her DD in the shark's mouth. I had been parked off to the side for a few minutes without moving (had the thing turned OFF) when all of a sudden a guy texting away on a phone came walking right at me. I yelled but he was too absorbed in what he was doing and he walked right into me..stomped me pretty good. Broke my toe. He yelled at me for being in his way and kept on going.

What is with people and the need to be so plugged in while on vacation? I saw so many folks who were so engaged with electronic devices........kind of made me sad that they couldn't enjoy the people they were with. I watched one woman in a dining location ignore her kids for the entire meal. So sad.

[DisneyMom]

That is terrible :mad:
Get a light saber or something to smack them before they can get so close,
Or yell something like "oh, no, Herpes again!" :twisted:

[Ice Bear]

Maybe he experienced the same thing I did.
Coming out of the MK park and walking to the boat dock for the Gf a scooter approached us.
He drove right at me and I just could jump out of his way. I was totally frightened because I have cancer can walk but slowly and need my husband to stabilize me.
He hit the wall,jumped from his scooter and started yelling ,swearing and cursing us. He would sew us for the damage on "his" scooter. (it was a rental)
My husband just stated taping all this including the fools behavior. Seeing that he just climbed back an the ECv and drove away. I think its really time Disney would ask for proof if a person really is disabled and needs a EVC. This lazy fat ass obviously was milking the system

[TdcOgre]

Maybe he experienced the same thing I did.
Coming out of the MK park and walking to the boat dock for the Gf a scooter approached us.
He drove right at me and I just could jump out of his way. I was totally frightened because I have cancer can walk but slowly and need my husband to stabilize me.
He hit the wall,jumped from his scooter and started yelling ,swearing and cursing us. He would sew us for the damage on "his" scooter. (it was a rental)
My husband just stated taping all this including the fools behavior. Seeing that he just climbed back an the ECv and drove away. I think its really time Disney would ask for proof if a person really is disabled and needs a EVC. This lazy fat ass obviously was milking the system

Judging by his actions it may have been a "mental" disability. (Terminal stupidity)

[DragonFox98]

Hey, reenden! Sorry for the trouble. Hopefully, the toe will heal fast. As for the idiot texting (or whatever) on his mobile phone, I will admit to being a person that has to be "plugged in" while on vacation. I have to carry my cell with me in case work calls (I handle all matter of finance and they need my approval for ALL purchases). So, I need to be available at all times. Most of the time, I check my email in the mornings and evenings. If I need to take a call, I duck somewhere out of the way and [somewhat] quiet. I even had a job interview while in the Canada pavillion last year! :)

I know a lot of people are now using apps on their phones to check wait times and whatnot. I'm old fashioned - I just have a normal phone, not a smartphone (but, oh, how I want one).

As for your guy, though...he probably was just too absorbed to care where he was going.

[reendan]

Maybe he experienced the same thing I did.
Coming out of the MK park and walking to the boat dock for the Gf a scooter approached us.
He drove right at me and I just could jump out of his way. I was totally frightened because I have cancer can walk but slowly and need my husband to stabilize me.
He hit the wall,jumped from his scooter and started yelling ,swearing and cursing us. He would sew us for the damage on "his" scooter. (it was a rental)
My husband just stated taping all this including the fools behavior. Seeing that he just climbed back an the ECv and drove away. I think its really time Disney would ask for proof if a person really is disabled and needs a EVC. This lazy fat ass obviously was milking the system

Please be careful about assuming that someone is only on a scooter because they are fat and lazy. Lots of medical conditions are invisible....mine is. that being said, I agree that there are a lot of folks who are on ECVs who are not careful and will run you right over. I have seen a lot of it. But there is another side to it as well, just like with everything. People see someone on an ECV and for some odd reason are compelled to jump in front of you, climb over you, pull their children into your path. I have often wondered why this is. It is hard for a person on an ECV to get around.....you have to be really vigilant and aware. I'm sorry you had that experience.

[reendan]

Dragonfox98.....oh I get that in today's world people need to be more plugged in than in the past. I have a phone I carry, I bring my laptop on vacation etc. The extreme examples are what amaze me. I saw an entire family out at a restaurant near home a few weeks ago where the 2 daughters and both parents had no interaction at all during the meal....all 4 of them were absorbed with their phones. I see it with my 14 yo nephew too. We took him out for dinner and after a while we had to ask him to please listen to what we had to say to him...we were trying to offer him a trip to WDW with us but he couldn't stop texting long enough to hear what we had to say. After he asked us to repeat ourselves for the 5th time we asked him to please put the phone aside for a few minutes and listen what we had to say. That is the kind of thing that bothers me....not being present with the people you are with when there is no real good reason for it.

[DragonFox98]

Dragonfox98.....oh I get that in today's world people need to be more plugged in than in the past. I have a phone I carry, I bring my laptop on vacation etc. The extreme examples are what amaze me. I saw an entire family out at a restaurant near home a few weeks ago where the 2 daughters and both parents had no interaction at all during the meal....all 4 of them were absorbed with their phones. I see it with my 14 yo nephew too. We took him out for dinner and after a while we had to ask him to please listen to what we had to say to him...we were trying to offer him a trip to WDW with us but he couldn't stop texting long enough to hear what we had to say. After he asked us to repeat ourselves for the 5th time we asked him to please put the phone aside for a few minutes and listen what we had to say. That is the kind of thing that bothers me....not being present with the people you are with when there is no real good reason for it.

I'm there with you....I've seen the "no interaction" types. I shudder to think that would happen it my family (it wouldn't - I'd end of loosing $200 or so 'cause I would THROW the phone). We're "horrible" parents (or so I have been told by other parents) because we do not let our kids have cells yet. They're 10 and 9 for crying out loud! My son actually asked me how he's supposed to contact me when he's over a friends house. I said, quite seriously, yell from their front yard - it's what I used to do. LOL But then I told him they have a landline and he can call me on that. He was actually embaressed to ask to use the phone! Geez!

[jldrn1]

Yep, this is turning into board x.

[DragonFox98]

Yep, this is turning into board x.

How so?