On our buses there simply isn't a place to park a walker, and so one's expected to clutch it one's bosom for the whole ride.
That sounds really convenient. :/ The powerchair does sound easier to manage, in that situation. On most of ours, you'd have to duke it out with people travelling with baby carriages, in either case. (And yeah, I've seen a couple of drivers just not let someone in a chair on because the ostensible wheelchair space was occupied by prams.) There is usually only one seat available with a reasonable amount of space available for parking a walker, so that it's not in the aisle with people shoving and kicking at it. Which also happens to be in the wheelchair space.
Ha! I really do have to restrain myself from using my cane as a behavior modification device. Sometimes I do get pissed off enough to use my elbows that way--unfortunately mostly by just not scrunching in my shoulders and arms, and bracing myself to let people (95% men) run into them. Hoist on their own petards. But, I've got the kind of PTSD that pretty much does away with the latter part of the fight or flight reaction, and have to watch it in crowded situations anyway. Hypervigilance + shoviness? Not good. If I start whacking people with the cane, I'll probably be sorry later--possibly from jail. :-|
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Date: 2010-07-13 04:30 pm (UTC)That sounds really convenient. :/ The powerchair does sound easier to manage, in that situation. On most of ours, you'd have to duke it out with people travelling with baby carriages, in either case. (And yeah, I've seen a couple of drivers just not let someone in a chair on because the ostensible wheelchair space was occupied by prams.) There is usually only one seat available with a reasonable amount of space available for parking a walker, so that it's not in the aisle with people shoving and kicking at it. Which also happens to be in the wheelchair space.
Ha! I really do have to restrain myself from using my cane as a behavior modification device. Sometimes I do get pissed off enough to use my elbows that way--unfortunately mostly by just not scrunching in my shoulders and arms, and bracing myself to let people (95% men) run into them. Hoist on their own petards. But, I've got the kind of PTSD that pretty much does away with the latter part of the fight or flight reaction, and have to watch it in crowded situations anyway. Hypervigilance + shoviness? Not good. If I start whacking people with the cane, I'll probably be sorry later--possibly from jail. :-|