Re: Need Help - Was I a SG?
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:49 pm
You are not a SG. I get at least three "why do they get to skip the line?" or "it's not fair they get to skip the line" a day when I visit Disney. I am a quadrapelgic (yes I can move my arms but not my fingers which means 4 of my limbs are impaired) and I use my own electric wheelchair to get around. It has nothing to do with the "fact" you don't "look" disabled its because they are SGs. When I show my GAC to the CM at the ride I tell them what I need what I need.... Such as I cant walk at all and therefore need to transfer into the ride where the car is level with my wheelchair seat on Test Track or need the wheelchair car on nemo.
At nemo my 3 year old nephew & I had to be pulled out of line to wait in what my family calls the holding pin to wait for the wheelchair car. So we didn't block the reg. Line. Well some idiot yells thats not fair that we got to skip the line. Well my nephew turned on his heel, stared at this full grown man, and says "we have to wait over there because we have to wait for the wheelchair car. Since I am too little to pick Aunt Sam up like Daddy. I have to wait longer than anyone else and I am 3. What's your problem?" . The whole line cheered.
My best friend handles the comments by walking behind me and giving the Eurapean middle finger (peace sign but flashing the back side of it) behind her back. She says it makes her feel better because she knows what she really means.
My sister tells people that using the GAC is the only perk to living with a disability or a sibling who is disabled (my health was so bad when they were little that my 2 sisters both took thier first steps in hospitals). It is a perk for your kids. Unfortanly the way people rent a wheelchairs at the park and the kids play musical chairs with (there is always a different kid in it everytime u see them in line) and dragging 97 year old Great Grandma on the fast pass for Tower of Terror and her "chickening out" last minute has destroyed the perk of going to the "front of the line" when a kid or parent has disabilities.
At nemo my 3 year old nephew & I had to be pulled out of line to wait in what my family calls the holding pin to wait for the wheelchair car. So we didn't block the reg. Line. Well some idiot yells thats not fair that we got to skip the line. Well my nephew turned on his heel, stared at this full grown man, and says "we have to wait over there because we have to wait for the wheelchair car. Since I am too little to pick Aunt Sam up like Daddy. I have to wait longer than anyone else and I am 3. What's your problem?" . The whole line cheered.
My best friend handles the comments by walking behind me and giving the Eurapean middle finger (peace sign but flashing the back side of it) behind her back. She says it makes her feel better because she knows what she really means.
My sister tells people that using the GAC is the only perk to living with a disability or a sibling who is disabled (my health was so bad when they were little that my 2 sisters both took thier first steps in hospitals). It is a perk for your kids. Unfortanly the way people rent a wheelchairs at the park and the kids play musical chairs with (there is always a different kid in it everytime u see them in line) and dragging 97 year old Great Grandma on the fast pass for Tower of Terror and her "chickening out" last minute has destroyed the perk of going to the "front of the line" when a kid or parent has disabilities.