Policing of GAC Cards

[turkeyham]

One of my aunts has a bad hip. She has a GAC card. She is only allowed 6 people. When she comes it is her and her son. She does not abuse the system either.

[Mayonnaise]

So Jake and I encountered a mega SG our very first night out here. As I've mentioned in the thread on finding folk, he's got mobility issues currently. He was doing really well yesterday though, and we didn't get to the parks till 6 after travel, so he decided we'd try without the chair, and went to city hall for a "can't do stairs" GAC.

So 3 hours later there we are, sitting on a bench with terrible visibility to see the fireworks (there was plenty of good standing room left but Jake's knees needed the bench, he'd been struggling since 6:30 so yeah.) We're sitting there discussing amongst ourselves and saying definitely he needs the chair from here on out. We tried, and it didn't work, and the lady sitting next to him on the bench pipes up.

"Oh yeah, if you remotely need a chair, you should get one. And not just a chair, you need a GAC too, even if you have the chair. That way you can get on the rides faster."

"I have one of those," says Jake, "For stairs."

"No, you don't want the stairs. You want the Red Arrow. That gets you right to the front of the line. We get that for my son because he has Autisim."

"That's nice for that," I reply, "but I don't think the Red Arrow is for mobility issues."

"Oh no," she says, and this is where I realize she's trying to teach us how to game the system, "You can get it for anything. You just have to keep listing concerns until they give it to you. All of them, every little thing you can think of. Eventually they'll give you the Red Arrow. That's the one you want. With that, and the chair, you should be able to walk right on on to every ride in the park. We don't get a chair, unfortunately, so we still have to wait a few minutes sometimes."

*Headdesk.*

8^S

[Notastupidguest]

We seem to have two threads running alongside each other here, one about speed and one about GAC's. Anyway I wanted to say this, three of us will be using ECV's and GAC's this time around, my DH because of a back injury (so rides will be totally out for him) my adult child, her disabilities are not visible but believe me they cause her a great deal of pain, and myself and mine are not visible either, so I shall wear my blue disability card around my neck to prove I am in fact disabled and am not using the ECV bcause I am fat.

Anyway, one year I went to Universal and a cameraman there said loudly to a party of people he was photographing "Well if she got up and walked she wouldn't need the chair" I was mortified because I couldn't walk as I had had cancer and was recovering from having had a huge tumour taken out of my stomach. In fact I hardly eat and it is so unfair when people look at me and immediately think I stuff my face with rubbish. If only, having half your insides taken away kind of stops that. I don't know why I eat like a bird but look like I stuff my face?

Too many people think they know why you need the ECV's, one young lad at WDW obviously took one look at me and judged me. I don't like having to go in front of everyone, I am well aware of the daggered stares at my back as I trundle on by them :( and I do think 6 guests for a GAC is more than generous, you don't need 6 people to hold your hand. Most of the time I have had wonderful help from the CM's at WDW and this is why I keep coming back. Sadly Universal can go whistle.

There that's off my chest :D

[hobie16]

Well said.

[hobie16]

Anyway, one year I went to Universal and a cameraman there said loudly to a party of people he was photographing "Well if she got up and walked she wouldn't need the chair" I was mortified because I couldn't walk as I had had cancer and was recovering from having had a huge tumour taken out of my stomach.

Too bad you didn't have one of these...



You could have chased him down and crushed his feet.

[Notastupidguest]

Too bad you didn't have one of these...



You could have chased him down and crushed his feet.

OMG I think I love you! LOL! :D:

[darph nader]

Stephen Hawking's new dune buggy.

[Main Streeter]

Glamis style!!!!

[tlbwriter]

Ugh. I hate it when people say "Look, she's using the EVC because she's too fat to walk." I always say "Maybe she's overweight because she can't walk, not the other way around." I mean, duh! Prejudice toward EVC riders really bothers me, partly because my mother in law should be using one, but refuses because she doesn't want people to judge her. She's not even overweight, but she thinks people will consider her lazy.

[Notastupidguest]

This is what I eat on a typical day. 1 bowl of cereal with skimmed milk, lunch is one roll with egg or ham, nothing too bulky as a filling because I can't take it down, and for my dinner I have a small salad, sometimes a baked jacket potato instead. But after that lot I'm stuffed yet my weight stays high :( I do get judged and people are intrigued to see what the fat person takes from the buffet lol. I seem to blow all the theories out of the water as regards you are what you eat. I can't eat rice or pasta or many carbs because they won't go down my throat, they get jammed and make me sick so I have to be very careful to only eat a small portion of protein and veges, salads and fruit. It's not a hardship I am lucky to be alive, the only hardship is when people make ill judged comments. I have long given up trying to explain I just keep quiet now. Edited to say, I am not diabetic.