Wheelchair Fakers

[February]

Well you're certainly welcome to share the correct spelling with anyone that you wish Wallaby! :D:

[Zazu]

Loud cell phone talkers huh? I got a story about those....

Dining at our favorite Chinese Restaurant one evening, our entire meal was eaten to the sound of a woman on the opposite side of the restaurant telling someone about all the problems with some property, mold, termites, attitude problems, the works.

We were not amused.

So, after we finished, I went over to her table and asked, "Pardon, but I couldn't help overhearing, are you by chance a realtor?"

"Why yes, yes I am! Are you interested in buying or selling?"

"One of each," I replied, "We like the neighborhood but need a bigger house. Could I trouble you for a business card?"

"Well certainly!" she said, getting all excited at the prospect of two deals.

"Thanks," I said, looking at the card carefully, "I want to make sure I don't list with or deal with any firm whose agents discuss private issues loud enough for a whole restaurant to hear. Good luck with the mold and termites!"

To which all she replied was :dropmouth

[BRWombat]

Loud cell phone talkers huh? I got a story about those....

Dining at our favorite Chinese Restaurant one evening, our entire meal was eaten to the sound of a woman on the opposite side of the restaurant telling someone about all the problems with some property, mold, termites, attitude problems, the works.

We were not amused.

So, after we finished, I went over to her table and asked, "Pardon, but I couldn't help overhearing, are you by chance a realtor?"

"Why yes, yes I am! Are you interested in buying or selling?"

"One of each," I replied, "We like the neighborhood but need a bigger house. Could I trouble you for a business card?"

"Well certainly!" she said, getting all excited at the prospect of two deals.

"Thanks," I said, looking at the card carefully, "I want to make sure I don't list with or deal with any firm whose agents discuss private issues loud enough for a whole restaurant to hear. Good luck with the mold and termites!"

To which all she replied was :dropmouth

Zazu, once again --

:zazu:

After this and the coffee/backpack incident, you have earned the right to call yourself Zazu, M.Rv. -- Master of Revenge

[Whazzup]

Priceless! Absolutely priceless!!! :D:

[Syndrome]

I enjoy standing in the cashier line at the grocery store and have some bozo nail me in the ankles with their cart. I give them two shots and on the third, back up a step forcing the push handle into their torso. The resulting "Uuuffffff" is music to my ears. :twisted:

I have done that one too, and here is a variation for the idots who feel the need to grab your friggin' seat back every time they get up in the airplane row behind you. For some reason, they also seem to be the ones who need to get up six times on 2 hour flight. I'll give 'em two freebies, then I time their next grab with hitting my recline button. The resulting effect is very gratifying.

[February]

I have done that one too, and here is a variation for the idots who feel the need to grab your friggin' seat back every time they get up in the airplane row behind you. For some reason, they also seem to be the ones who need to get up six times on 2 hour flight. I'll give 'em two freebies, then I time their next grab with hitting my recline button. The resulting effect is very gratifying.

I always get the only people on the entire plane who have to recline their seats. I kid you not they're always like 4'10.

I'm 6' in my combat boots. 5'10" barefoot. My husband now makes a point to check if anyone else around us is reclining.

It's always just the two people in front of us no matter what row we're in!

I regret to admit once or twice I have had to grab a seat back when rising from a plane seat- because my legs do weird things in the cabin pressure (jumping spasms, another neurological joy) and they feel even weaker than usual when I try to stand up in-flight. Usually we have a row of three of us, so I grab on behind my husband's chair instead of the one in front of me, best is when I make my husband and kid get up, put all the arm rests up, and then slide across and then husband helps me out of the chair and into the aisle.

I try REALLY hard no to need to get up during flights as using an airplane lavatory is hell on earth for the able bodied- when you're not working with your balance right and all it's dangerous. I've conked my head more than once.

If I've ever accidentily grabbed anyone's seat back, I apologize! I try never, ever to get up more than once a flight but try to avoid it altogether.

We were stuck on the tarmac at OIA for 2 hours on our last flight home from WDW due to lightening. Or more precisely due to the fact that our airline allowed some travelers who were late from a connecting flight to hold us up- all five of them smelled as if they had never had a shower in their lives and then they scattered them throughout the plane for good measure to be sure everyone could enjoy the ambiance.

Because their baggage needed to be loaded, we couldn't leave the gate because the handlers won't work in lightning (understandable)

They should have made funboys wait for the next flight out. . .

[hobie16]

I have done that one too, and here is a variation for the idots who feel the need to grab your friggin' seat back every time they get up in the airplane row behind you. For some reason, they also seem to be the ones who need to get up six times on 2 hour flight. I'll give 'em two freebies, then I time their next grab with hitting my recline button. The resulting effect is very gratifying.

And, for the SP in front of you that reclines their seat aaaallllllllllllllllllllll the way back, long term torture by directing the cold air vent at their head.

Muuwwaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. :twisted:

[BRWombat]

I try to solve the problem when our family travels by picking the seats myself, and having us on two rows, with me on the second row. Then, it's family in front of me.

If I can't arrange it that way -- like when we got our flight changed on our most recent trip -- it's really the person in front of me who suffers, because when my legs are in front of me, the seat cannot be reclined. There's nowhere for it to go. I have to deal with a few seconds of pressure on my knees until the person ahead of me realizes what's going on. I suspect they think the seat is broken. :twisted:

[Syndrome]

February, you might want to warn the person in front of you right from the beginning that it's hard for you to get up and that you might inadvertently pull their seat at some point in the flight. I had some poor majorly tall guy behind me once, and he apologized in advance in case he poked my seat while in flight (he had NOWHERE for his legs). His politeness paid him a big dividend...I happened to be in an exit row, and when I looked back and saw his predicament I ended up swapping seats with him so he had a nice, roomy flight.

[February]

February, you might want to warn the person in front of you right from the beginning that it's hard for you to get up and that you might inadvertently pull their seat at some point in the flight. I had some poor majorly tall guy behind me once, and he apologized in advance in case he poked my seat while in flight (he had NOWHERE for his legs). His politeness paid him a big dividend...I happened to be in an exit row, and when I looked back and saw his predicament I ended up swapping seats with him so he had a nice, roomy flight.

Believe me I try my absolute best to be as polite as I can. I board the plane early so I can get settled in and then deplane last of all so that I don't hold people up in the aisles. Usually this means any seat grabbing I do is only in empty seats. I never get up in flight unless it's an absolute necessity (unlike people around me who seem to love to grab my own seat and pull my hair in the process.)

Most people come aboard wearing earbuds these days and glare at you if you try to talk to them so I just try my best to leave them alone and make my family the only ones to suffer if I do have to move.

Only time I can't get through a flight without getting up is if it's say, the trip back from OIA to home and we've been stranded on the tarmac for 2 hours before we even take off. . .

One things for sure after reading this thread I'll never grab a seat back again. Even if it means falling into the aisle.