OhioDisneyDad
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2006
I'm frustrated that I keep reading needtogomore's username as neednomore. I'm not sure why that is.
I read it as needstogo!
I'm frustrated that I keep reading needtogomore's username as neednomore. I'm not sure why that is.
Oh my, I left for couple of hours just to find that they still try to prosecute you, lol. Maybe we can just move to execution. I suggest 3 rides on IASW, count all dolls and report back. If it is not the right number, you brought it on yourself. Smile and do not pay attention.
Lucky for me IASW is closed for refurb! My sentence has been commuted.
does NOT mean the kid did not need the wheelchair for a good portion of the day. There are many conditions that cause weakness and fatigue, among both kids & adults. Walk a mile in their shoes...
One of only a few times we've ever been frustrated with a CM's decision:
Hubby and I wanted a rider swap pass for Toy Story Mania so we could ride and actually play the arcade games. The CM turned us down for a rider swap pass because "everyone can ride". Being huge fans, we didn't want to miss out on the ride and so we all went on it. Our twins, at 17 months, wouldn't wear the 3D glasses of course, and were really too young to enjoy the ride. With the lap bar on the ride vehicle and trying to hold them on our laps, we really couldn't enjoy the interactive arcade aspect of the ride either.
I think Disney should let parents decide when a ride is appropriate for their child and if and when a rider swap is necessary.
Thank you very much! To most people I appear to be a normal 35 year old woman with no reason to be in a wheelchair. However, I feel like I should wear a sign around my neck so I can advertise that I have a disease that isn't noticable to the naked eye....so my biggest frustration is judgement by others! You have no idea why I am in a wheelchair, but I don't pay out $200 dollars per vacation just so I can get on the bus first. I would rather be healthy enough to stand in line and walk for miles at my age. But I am not and I get all kinds of comments like "what's your disability, mental perhaps? I would love to retort, yes and I'll assume yours is stupidity!"
I have lupus and I get tired so easily and sometimes just can't manage the lines, the walking, and all that comes with a trip to Disney. But that doesn't stop me from wanting to go.
Thank you very much! To most people I appear to be a normal 35 year old woman with no reason to be in a wheelchair. However, I feel like I should wear a sign around my neck so I can advertise that I have a disease that isn't noticable to the naked eye....so my biggest frustration is judgement by others! You have no idea why I am in a wheelchair, but I don't pay out $200 dollars per vacation just so I can get on the bus first. I would rather be healthy enough to stand in line and walk for miles at my age. But I am not and I get all kinds of comments like "what's your disability, mental perhaps? I would love to retort, yes and I'll assume yours is stupidity!"
I have lupus and I get tired so easily and sometimes just can't manage the lines, the walking, and all that comes with a trip to Disney. But that doesn't stop me from wanting to go.
I'm not gonna lie, if it would get me a seat on a bus or a few less weird looks when I sit on the ground while in line I'd wear a sign that said "I have fibromyalgia". No, it's not anyone else's business but if it'd make things a little easier...Thank you very much! To most people I appear to be a normal 35 year old woman with no reason to be in a wheelchair. However, I feel like I should wear a sign around my neck so I can advertise that I have a disease that isn't noticable to the naked eye....so my biggest frustration is judgement by others! You have no idea why I am in a wheelchair, but I don't pay out $200 dollars per vacation just so I can get on the bus first. I would rather be healthy enough to stand in line and walk for miles at my age. But I am not and I get all kinds of comments like "what's your disability, mental perhaps? I would love to retort, yes and I'll assume yours is stupidity!"
I have lupus and I get tired so easily and sometimes just can't manage the lines, the walking, and all that comes with a trip to Disney. But that doesn't stop me from wanting to go.
That's actually very interesting - and it doesn't seem particularly safe. Having to kneel the bus so that one side of it tilts to within four inches of the road? That's a heck of an angle for the bus as a whole. I wonder if the driver wasn't aware there's a ramp. After all - there's NO curb at the parks, just flat pavement. The driver would have had to kneel the floor of the bus to actual pavement level for these Guests to board the bus at Epcot. I know you weren't ON the bus then, but did it appear that's what happened?If you had bothered to pay attention to what I wrote I said that the bus driver had problems "kneeling" the bus. I know this because I was sitting in the back staring at the "kneeling" button when the bus driver kept trying to get it to work right. There wasn't any lift as you claim - at least not on the bus I was on. The entire bus actually lowered and tilted to right until it was level with the curb (at least that was the idea anyway - the bus driver was a bit challenged to make it work). I'm surprised that an "expert" such as yourself doesn't know this. I also find it funny that you know what happened on the bus when you weren't there but that's par for the course on the DIS.
That's actually very interesting - and it doesn't seem particularly safe. Having to kneel the bus so that one side of it tilts to within four inches of the road? That's a heck of an angle for the bus as a whole. I wonder if the driver wasn't aware there's a ramp. After all - there's NO curb at the parks, just flat pavement. The driver would have had to kneel the floor of the bus to actual pavement level for these Guests to board the bus at Epcot. I know you weren't ON the bus then, but did it appear that's what happened?
If I recall correctly (and God help me if I get it wrong because someone will jump all over me) but I think part of the floor near the door actually folded outward to help form the ramp. So it wouldn't be a lift (at least not the way I think of a lift) but the driver kept having trouble getting the ramp part to be level with the sidewalk. That's why he had to kneel the bus multiple times because he kept leaving a drop off from the ramp to the sidewalk which obviously isn't safe for those rolling off the ramp.
Thanks for clearing that up! There are several different bus styles (Magicbus knows their 'names'). One is the lift; one has a ramp that slides out, and one has a lift that flips out. The last is the best, in my opinion - aka, I don't know, I just think - because if it's not operating mechanically, the driver can open and close it manually.If I recall correctly (and God help me if I get it wrong because someone will jump all over me) but I think part of the floor near the door actually folded outward to help form the ramp. So it wouldn't be a lift (at least not the way I think of a lift) but the driver kept having trouble getting the ramp part to be level with the sidewalk. That's why he had to kneel the bus multiple times because he kept leaving a drop off from the ramp to the sidewalk which obviously isn't safe for those rolling off the ramp.